Overview

• An early-morning alarm around 4:25 a.m. alerted residents to a blaze in a four-storey building on Eichenstraße.
• Firefighters evacuated the property, rescuing one person by aerial ladder and three others via the stairwell.
• Two people were injured and taken to hospital, while the remaining residents were uninjured and accounted for.
• A suspicious object discovered in the affected apartment was checked by LKA technicians and declared harmless.
• The Brandkommissariat of the Landeskriminalamt Berlin is investigating both the fire’s origin and the resident’s cause of death.