• Escape room fire kills five teenagers in Poland
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46765692 Escape rooms in the UK always (and I can only assume, are legally required to) have an emergency exit button. Did this one not?
Every escape room I've done here in the UK explain that they cannot actually lock you in for safety reasons
Yeah I've had similar experiences, even one I did where you start out chained to a chair had the chains loose
One of the reviews on the now-deleted Facebook page of the escape room: https://i.imgur.com/VAAyRz8.png The place is cold and it stinks of gas because the garage, which acts as the escape room, is being heated with a gas cylinder-powered heater. Both women employed there are unfriendly, of course putting it lightly. There's no waiting room for the parents. THIS PLACE IS NOT WORTH RECOMMENDING. [emphasis mine]
Yup, same here in Canada, or at least the ones I've done. They make it very clear that the main door is never locked, and you can leave for any reason.
If true then they are in big trouble for negligence.
The ones I have been too have always had a short safety briefing and a very clear 'if something happens here is how you get out'. In the Netherlands they are closely regulated for safety and I thought this was the case for all of Europe. From what I can tell it seems that the people that ran this one weren't up to code.
in the US there'd have to be a visible fire escape, I imagine the same is in other countries
Little update on this, looks like someone has been charged. (can only find SKY atm, BBC has not yet updated) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/man-charged-over-escape-room-fire-deaths/ar-BBRSXwl?ocid=spartanntp The 28-year-old suspect was presented with charges of "deliberately creating the danger of a fire in the escape room" and "unintentionally causing the death of people in a fire" a spokesman for the district prosecutor said. I'm a little unclear on what that actually means but at least to me it reads like the guy decided to try and light a fire or do something equally stupid as part of the 'experience' or whatever.
I guess there was......no escape.
People died.
People die every day. It's a part of life. You live with it, you deal with it, you get over it.
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