{"id":146258,"date":"2026-08-15T03:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:31:03","slug":"fire-in-berlin-high-rise-injured-5-prompted-some-residents-to-consider-jumping-to-safety-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146258\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Berlin high-rise injured 5, prompted some residents to consider jumping to safety | World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A fire in a 21-story Berlin high-rise injured an estimated five people and made some residents consider jumping to escape the flames before it was brought under control Friday morning, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the injuries was not immediately known, German news agency dpa reported. All of the building&#8217;s residents were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>One person was forced to jump into a firetruck\u2019s aerial basket, dpa reported. A fire department spokesperson described the rescue operation as \u201cdramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately known how far the person jumped.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out around 6:30 a.m. Friday in the Friedrichshain neighborhood near the Ostbahnhof train station. It was brought under control in under three hours, dpa reported.<\/p>\n<p>It started in an apartment on the 11th floor and spread to the unit above, dpa reported. The fire&#8217;s cause was not immediately known either.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A fire in a 21-story Berlin high-rise injured an estimated five people and made some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,1827],"class_list":["post-146258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117097417025335572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146258","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=146258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}