Grimbergen a Few tens of residents of sheltered housing The Bogaet in Humbeek his Friday morning for a while evacuated as a result of a fire in one of the rooms. Cause of the fire was an overheated coffee maker. There were no injuries, already had two nurses to the hospital, because they smoke inhaled. The damage was limited to the affected room.
The fire broke Friday morning around 7 am in one of the rooms on the first floor of sheltered housing The Bogaet in the Dorpstraat in Humbeek. The smoke detectors were immediately activated, in which the rusthuispersoneel an evacuation began. Several dozen residents of the affected wing were to a room on the ground floor. Also, the fire department was notified and that was fast and with a lot of people on the spot. Eventually, the fire brigade the fire relatively quickly under control, so the damage was limited to the affected room.
Smoke inhaled
“Of the residents got no one injured, partly due to the accurate performance of the rusthuispersoneel,” says mayor Chris Selleslagh (Open Vld). “A staff of four, breathing some smoke in. Two of them were for research transferred to the hospital, but make it good.”
According to the initial findings broke the fire in the kitchen of one of the rooms, after the resident coffee maker to had to leave. Because of the severe damage to the room, the occupant temporarily elsewhere shelter in the sheltered housing. All the other apartments remained free. The inhabitants were short for 9 hours to return to their rooms.
