Overview
- A witness reported an unknown person near the parked Kältebus vehicles on Seydlitzstraße in Moabit around 3:15 a.m., shortly before one bus caught fire and a second was damaged.
- Firefighters extinguished the blaze and reported no injuries, with one bus burning out in the front section and the neighboring vehicle sustaining heat damage.
- The Landeskriminalamt’s fire commission is investigating on suspicion of arson, and no arrests have been announced.
- Berliner Stadtmission says two of its three donation-funded buses are currently unusable, and the nonprofit Gebewo has supplied a temporary VW bus with a wheelchair ramp to help keep limited service running.
- The charity is urgently seeking donations to replace and repair vehicles, estimating roughly €50,000 in damage to the specialized interiors; last winter its buses assisted about 2,100 people.