Large fire in student flat in The Hague
On Sunday, a major fire raged in The Hague on the sixteenth floor of a student flat. Three people had to go to the hospital because they had inhaled smoke. Some residents of the flat could not flee because the escape routes were full of smoke, reports Omroep West. The fire brigade helped take them out of the building.
Student houses are not all equally fire-safe: there are sometimes old bicycles or empty beer crates in front of the escape routes, the batteries of the smoke detectors are depleted or a roommate puts a telephone in bed to the charger. Every year there are a number of fires in student houses and sometimes things end badly. The residents themselves can improve safety. The National Student Union has drawn up a checklist.
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