The residents are taken out of the smoke-filled house with a turntable ladder Photo: Spreepicture
By Dirk Böttger
For the second time within 24 hours, the volunteer fire brigades in the Oder-Spree district had to go on a large-scale operation to deal with a basement fire.
There was a fire in the basement of a residential building in Ziolkowskiring in Fürstenwalde-Nord on Wednesday evening around 8 p.m. The fire brigade and rescue service were again in large-scale operation.
Thick smoke was coming from the basement when the first emergency services arrived, and numerous residents were standing on balconies. The fire department rescued 16 people using a turntable ladder. A resident was taken to hospital with suspected smoke poisoning.
People had to wait outside in the apartment building while the fire was extinguished.
Residents must wait outside until the fire is extinguished Photo: Spreepicture
Just the evening before there was a fire in a cellar in Beeskow, 28 kilometers away. There, 29 residents were rescued from the house – there were 6 injured.