Overview
- Residents reported kitchen smoke around 13:45 in the 19‑storey building on Lindenstraße, where crews found about one square metre of burning rubbish in the basement.
- Smoke traveled up a common kitchen exhaust shaft into units up to the ninth floor, prompting checks and ventilation of 135 apartments.
- About 30 firefighters worked for roughly two hours to extinguish the basement blaze and clear the building, and no injuries were reported.
- Separately, 62 firefighters tackled a car workshop fire on Langhansstraße in Weißensee after flames reached the roof and neighboring structures.
- The workshop fire was brought under control with a drone used to find hidden embers, with no casualties reported and the cause still unclear.