Early on Saturday morning there was a fire in an apartment in an apartment building in Neu-Hohenschönhausen, and the 56-year-old tenant was hospitalized. As the Berlin police said, according to initial findings, neighbors in the house on Welserstrasse were woken up by a smoke detector at around 3:15 a.m. They called the fire department.
According to the police, the emergency services managed to evacuate the resident of the burning apartment and to extinguish the fire in the hallway. Rescue workers then took the 56-year-old to a hospital for inpatient treatment with smoke poisoning. A fire department of the State Criminal Police Office is leading the further investigations. (tsp)
