Woman leaps from 11th-floor ledge into firefighter’s arms as Berlin high-rise burns

• As a furious blaze raged inside a high-rise apartment building in Berlin, one woman was rescued by scaling the building’s exterior and taking a terrifying leap more than two stories down to safety.
• The fire erupted in a 18-story residential high-rise building in the German capital’s Friedrichshain neighborhood around 6:30 a.m.
• The blaze started in an apartment on the 11th floor and spread to the apartment above it, with flames shooting from several windows and thick, black smoke pluming from the building, Berlin police said.