Add The New York Post on Google Harrowing footage captures the moment a Berlin woman narrowly cheats death while leaping from her 11th-floor window onto a truck’s aerial platform as flames consumed the high-rise.
The woman is seen dangling Friday as smoke and flames billow out of the window next to her, with a firefighter urging her to jump down onto the rescue truck two floors below, according to the US Sun.
A woman dangles from an 11th-floor window of a burning building in Berlin-Friedrichshain. ColdJack/X The rescue ladder only made it up to the ninth floor, so she had to jump. ColdJack/X Smoke and flames crept closer to her as she took the leap of faith, plummeting toward the firefighter, whose arms were outstretched.
She landed safely in the rescue bucket before being lowered to the ground.
Thirteen people suffered minor injuries in the blaze, according to reports.
First responders got the fire under control in fewer than three hours.
