A 26-year-old woman and her 5-year-old child have died following a high-rise fire in the east of Berlin earlier in the week, the police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The woman and her two young children were found unconscious in the stairwell on the third floor of the high-rise on Wednesday evening. The flat where the fire started was also located there.<\/p>\n
Paramedics resuscitated the three but they could not save the 9-month-old infant, who died. The mother and the infant’s brother were taken to hospital. Their condition was initially described as critical by the police.<\/p>\n
The 5-year-old died on Friday afternoon, and his mother on Saturday evening, the police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out in a flat in the complex on Dolgensee Street in the Lichtenberg district. It spread rapidly because the rooms were cluttered. The occupant of the flat is believed to have been a hoarder, dpa learnt. The large amount of clutter made firefighting more difficult.<\/p>\n
Police continue to investigate the cause<\/p>\n
When the fire brigade arrived, flames were blazing from the windows. Emergency services entered the high-rise wearing breathing apparatus.<\/p>\n
According to the fire brigade, 70 people were rescued or brought to safety from the smoke-filled 20-storey building. A total of eight people were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
The police reported that four people were taken to nearby hospitals on suspicion of smoke inhalation, including the 75-year-old man in whose apartment the fire is believed to have started.<\/p>\n
The police are investigating the cause.<\/p>\n
Around 170 firefighters were deployed, accompanied by numerous police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old woman and her 5-year-old child have died following a high-rise fire in the east of Berlin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,10717,2120,10718,190],"class_list":["post-14165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-fire-department","tag-fire-department","tag-fire-station","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}