Faulty wiring likely cause of Escape Room fire in Poland: Polish firefighters on Saturday blamed substandard electrical wiring and lax security procedures at an Escape Room for a fire that killed five teenage girls and injured a man. Fire service: extremely tragic New Year's Eve; 5 people died in fires During the New... czytaj dalej » The victims of the fire are 15-year-old girls who were celebrating birthday of one of them; the families have been offered psychological help, the Minister of the Interior and Administration, Joachim Brudziński said on Friday. A police spokeswoman in the city of Koszalin, Monika Kosiec, said Friday the victims were probably celebrating one of their birthdays. A 25-year-old man has been taken to hospital with burns and could not be immediately questioned by investigators who are probing the cause of the fire, she said. The 15-year-old girls were participating in an escape room game in Koszalin, northern Poland when a fire broke out around 5 p.m. local time (4 p.m. GMT and 11 a.m. EST), according to the BBC. Read more:A burglar allegedly broke into an escape room — but he had to call 911 on himself when he couldn't get out

The cause of the escape room fire is unknown, but Polish officials are now carrying out safety checks on similar games across the country, where the escape rooms are popular. Escape room games, which have risen in popularity in recent years, see participants get locked in a room, where they must solve puzzles and complete complicated tasks in order to get out. A day of mourning has been called for Koszalin, while a number of local events have been cancelled, with Polish President Andrzej Duda calling the fire an "appalling tragedy." Koszalin Mayor Piotr Jedlinski announced that Sunday would be a day of mourning in the city.
Five 15-year-old girls are killed in a fire at an escape room in Koszalin, Poland.