Firefighters extinguish the fire in the old tram Photo: Spreepicture
By Dirk Boettger
On Friday evening there was a fire on the premises of a school in Neukölln. A historic tram caught fire.
The Neukölln fire station was called around 9 p.m. to a fire on the school grounds of the Zuckmayer high school and the rainbow elementary school on Mittelweg. A historic tram from 1936 was engulfed in flames on the school grounds.
Despite the extinguishing work, the tram car burned out completely Photo: spreepicture
The firefighters extinguished the carriage of the former tram, which burned out completely. Nothing can yet be said about the cause of the fire, a specialist commissioner of the Berlin police is investigating.