“We did lose some shirts and a couple of laptops, one on the fifth floor from a cycling official and one in the office downstairs,” Mike Tancred, an Australian Olympic Committee spokesman, said Sunday. It’s absolutely not satisfactory at all.”Chiller believes the fire began in trash left behind as contractors finish construction. [Egad, toilets reportedly failed a stress test]Of greater concern was the matter of the fire alarms. A week after Australian officials found their Olympic Village quarters uninhabitable because of “blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring,” its athletes were robbed when they evacuated their rooms because of a fire. “We hadn’t been advised that the fire alarms were silenced, so how we found out was basically smoke in the corridors and stairwells.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2016 17:48 UTC