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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The residents of a high-rise in the Neu-Hohenschönhausen district did not experience a nice Christmas Eve.
After a cellar fire, the house was temporarily disconnected from the electricity and water networks and was therefore difficult to live in, as a fire department spokesman said on Friday night.
"Of course that's not so nice over the holidays."
The district office ensures that those affected have a place to stay for the Christmas days.
In the house on Arenshooper Strasse there had been a major fire brigade operation that afternoon. For a still unknown cause, parts of a power distribution system as well as adjacent basement sheds caught fire. The fire itself was not great. It was said to have caused a lot of smoke. After a good hour the fire was extinguished. The Berlin fire brigade had arrived with 105 emergency services.