Zeitz (dpa / sa) - Because of a burning Christmas pyramid, an apartment on the Roßmarkt in Zeitz (Burgenlandkreis) caught fire on Thursday night.

As the police announced in the morning, the 76-year-old tenant had to be freed from the apartment by the fire brigade through an attic window.

She was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation.

The property damage amounts to the information according to 50,000 euros.