Members of the Australian team participating at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were forced to evacuate the building they are staying at in the athlete's village due to a fire. Upon return to their quarters, some had found their belongings had been robbed, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The report noted that some 100 members of the team were evacuated for 30 minutes due to a fire suspected to have been started by a worker's cigarette in the basement of the building. The stolen items included Zika-protective shirts and a cycling official's laptop.
In addition, workers had been given permission to disable the fire alarm, without notifying the Australian team, and so it was not functioning during the time of the fire. "Obviously that is completely unacceptable that (a) the fire alarm was disabled and (b) that if it had to be, that we weren't warned about that," Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller said in the report.
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