🌤️ Guten Morgen, Berlin!

Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city - from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Let’s dive in.

📰 Top Stories

🇩🇪 "Many homeless people have burns from the sun" (3 minute read)

As Heatwave "Julia" pushes Berlin temperatures above 30°C for days, staff at the Bahnhofsmission at Zoologischer Garten report many homeless people suffering severe sunburns, dehydration and fainting; some need ambulances or hospital care. The mission offers water, shade, sunscreen, cold showers, clothes and emergency help, but volunteers say structural gaps remain—more public drinking fountains, toilets, showers and safe cooling spaces are needed. They urge residents to hand out water or small cash and ask authorities for lasting solutions.

rbb24 - 2025-08-14

🇩🇪 Pankow: Person dies after swimming accident in Weißer See (1 minute read)

A person died Wednesday afternoon after a bathing accident in the Weißen See in Pankow; emergency crews were alerted around 15:45, found the victim out of the water with cardiac arrest after a drowning, and resuscitation efforts failed on site. Also Wednesday, a person went missing after falling from a boat in Tegeler See (Reinickendorf); DLRG, police and fire dive teams and sonar-equipped boats searched for hours around Scharfenberg island but called off the search without finding them.

Berliner Zeitung - 2025-08-14

🇩🇪 Rabies detected in bats in Berlin (3 minute read)

A dead bat found in Charlottenburg‑Wilmersdorf, Berlin, tested positive for bat rabies, the Senate’s consumer protection office said on August 1. Bat rabies is rare and seldom transmits to people, but authorities urge caution: do not handle sick or dead bats with bare hands, use gloves, contact local bat experts (e.g., BAT, NABU) and seek immediate medical advice if skin contact, bites or unmonitored child contact occurred. About five bat-rabies detections occur yearly in Berlin; human cases remain very rare.

rbb24 - 2025-08-14

⚡ Quick Hits

• 🇩🇪 Why there are currently more and more problems on the light rail system (rbb24, 3 minute read)

• 🇩🇪 Despite parents' residence permit: Germany denied entry to toddler from Jordan - wrongly (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)

• 🇩🇪 Man assaults and attacks lodger - sentenced to several years in prison (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)

• 🇬🇧 Berlin to change racist street name after legal battle (Deutsche Welle (DW), 4 minute read)

• 🇩🇪 "We wouldn't have made it without the Tegel Arrival Center" (rbb24, 4 minute read)

💬 What Berliners Are Talking About (from r/berlin)

• 🗣️ Trying to find a machinist/lathe tech in Berlin - Community suggests makerspaces, small shops, and online services in Berlin for a custom flange.

• 🗣️ Unterwelten - People confirm the underground tours stay pleasantly cool—bring a thin long-sleeve.

• 🗣️ Habe mit dem Dönerman gestritten 😢 - Late-night Döner mix-up leaves exhausted customer stuck with unwanted, dry kebab.

👋 That's a wrap!

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