Five teen girls, all 15, are dead after a fire started during an “escape room” birthday party event in Koszalin, Poland. The fire prevented a worker from opening the room. Escape rooms are described as “interactive games” in which kids search for clues to get themselves out of their locked-in dilemma. There are many in Toronto. It seems the rooms typically have no inside mechanism for emergency exit. The phenomenon will seem to come out of nowhere for some parents, particularly the morbid variant of the game which is obsessed with fear rather than skill. A recently-released movie in theatres now challenges the heroine to “try doing one thing that scares you.” Sure.
Toronto fire inspectors will be conducting a safety blitz at so-called escape rooms in the wake of the death of five teen girls in an escape in Poland. Reports Friday say as well that there was a fire Christmas Day at an escape room near Yonge and Gould Sts. That…
https://twitter.com/LateNightCam/status/978563073672794112 An early morning blaze has caused "extensive damage" to a home near the Junction, Toronto Fire Services said Tuesday. Firefighters arrived at the scene on Wiltshire Avenue, near Davenport Road and Symington Avenue, at 4:23 a.m. Everyone in the home made it out safely and no one was hurt,…
An 11-year-old girl has had an astonishing escape from death after a five-storey fall from her apartment home on Grand Ravine Drive in northwest North York. She is in the Hospital for Sick Children with broken bones but is said by doctors to be set to recover. She may have…
