WARSAW, Poland — A faulty heating system appeared to have caused a fire at a house in northern Poland where five teenage girls died while locked inside a recreational escape room that was installed in the rented dwelling, investigators said Saturday. Players in escape room games are locked inside a room or building and must solve puzzles and find clues that lead them to the key that will unlock the door. A spokesman for local firefighters, Tomasz Kubiak, said the units responding to the blaze had to use specialized equipment and force their way into the locked escape room of some 7 square meters (75 square feet.) Poland’s interior minister has ordered fire safety inspections at more than 1,000 escape room locations across the country. Local residents placed flowers and lights in front of the location, a two-story house with a huge “Escape Room” sign in front.

Source: National Post January 05, 2019 10:41 UTC