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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - In an apartment fire in Hamburg's Kleiner Grasbrook district, the fire brigade brought a mother and child to safety.

The resident of the burning apartment, which was on the third floor of an apartment building, suffered smoke poisoning on Sunday night, a fire department spokesman reported on Sunday morning.

The mother and her child lived in the neighboring apartment.

In the apartment on fire, a mattress had caught fire, as it was said.

The cause was initially unclear.

The emergency services saw the woman with her child on a balcony of the house.

The two were brought to safety with the help of a turntable ladder.

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