Genk is The highest building of the province of Limburg is Tuesday night just evacuated for a fire. About 18.45 hours, the fire zone East of Limburg called, because fire was created on the eleventh floor.
There was apparently a deep fryer overheated, with a heavy smoke as a result. All of the more than four hundred residents had to be immediately at the front of the square, gather. The evacuation of the twenty storey high building of 60,90 metres high was also very smooth. “We ended up within the fire quickly under control”, says Captain Joost Lismont of fire station Genk. They were massively on the spot come. “That is especially because this is indeed going to be a very special building. However, the residents themselves are already well responded to. They had all the doors closed pulled everyone to the outside helped. We have one lady in a wheelchair to evacuate. Afterwards went to extinguish the fire very quickly. Unfortunately the affected apartment or temporarily uninhabitable. All other residents of Zonneweelde if in the course of Tuesday night return back to their home. No one was at the fire injured. Some residents were given just a thermal blanket, because they are outside suffering from hypothermia were.