Fire in built environment

Hundreds of people were evacuated from a nightclub in south-west Germany after a fire broke out, police said on March 29, with images showing the blaze raging on the building’s roof.Police said the fire began at around 3.45am (9.45am Singapore time) in the nightclub in Kehl, which is on the border with France.The blaze went on to “spread over the whole building”, a police statement added.Around 750 people were inside at the time and all left unassisted, with three people treated by emergency services.Images published in German media show a huge fire on the roof of the nightclub in an industrial area of the city.The blaze is reminiscent of the fire which engulfed a bar in the early hours of New Year’s Day in Swiss ski resort Crans-Montana, killing 41 people and injuring 115.Kehl lies directly across the Rhine River from the French city of Strasbourg, and the club regularly attracts visitors from across the border.