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
The severity of the injuries was not immediately known, German news agency dpa reported. All of the building’s residents were evacuated.<\/p>\n
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
It wasn’t immediately known how far the person jumped.<\/p>\n
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
It started in an apartment on the 11th floor and spread to the unit above, dpa reported. The fire’s cause was not immediately known either.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[955,953,18],"class_list":["post-72287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-ap-world-news","tag-associated-press","tag-berlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}