{"id":10599,"date":"2026-07-02T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:52","slug":"five-killed-in-unsprinklered-apartment-building-in-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/five-killed-in-unsprinklered-apartment-building-in-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Five killed in unsprinklered apartment building in Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National and international media report that a fire in an apartment building on 1 July has killed five people in Antwerp, Belgium. Four were elderly residents and the fifth a daughter who was visiting one of them. 16 others were sent to hospital. The fire was reported at 10:00. The cause is believed to be a short circuit that occurred when workers placing a new elctricity cabinet on the ground floor pierced a water pipe. Huge quantities of smoke were released as the heat and smoke spread through the building. The building has over 200 residents and at least 10 storeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sprinklered apartment buildings have never lost so many people in a fire. In fact it is rare that even one person dies. Belgium does not require sprinklers in any residential buildings, nor is there a requirement in high-rise buildings. Sadly, these deaths were almost certainly preventable had the building been protected with sprinklers. While it was not a new building, it is not difficult to retrofit sprinklers in existing apartment buildings and this has been done in many hundreds of apartment buildings in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National and international media report that a fire in an apartment building on 1 July has killed five people in Antwerp, Belgium. Four were elderly residents and the fifth a daughter who was visiting one of them. 16 others were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}