Moment woman jumps from burning 11th-floor building

Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter Published August 16, 2026 9:00am Updated August 16, 2026 9:00am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A woman narrowly escaped a fire that engulfed a 21-storey building in Berlin, Germany, by jumping out of the window. The fire broke out at around 6.27am local time on the balcony of the 11th-floor of a block of flats on Straße der Pariser Kommune in Friedrichshain. Footage captured a resident dangling off the window of the 11th floor, about 35 metres off the ground, as flames roared in the next window over. She was still hanging off the edge when firefighters arrived, the service told the German national broadcaster rbb24. But as the crew’s aerial lift only reached