On Saturday evening, the Brussels fire brigade was called to a kitchen fire in Jette, but when they arrived at the scene, the fire was extinguished thanks to three attentive young people from the neighbourhood.
"We received a call from the emergency centre for a kitchen fire in the Rue Jules Lahaye (Esseghem district) in Jette a little before 22:00 last night," said Walter Derieuw of the Brussels fire brigade on Sunday morning. "When we arrived at the scene, we were met by a young resident who informed us that the fire was out."
The fire brigade found that the fire had indeed been extinguished and the young locals had already started ventilating the house. The occupant of the flat was unharmed, and the damage was limited to the cooker.
Worse was prevented thanks to three young people from the neighbourhood who had noticed a plume of smoke coming from a window on the tenth floor of the apartment building.
"They stormed upstairs and nipped the incipient fire on the cooker in the bud," Derieuw explained. "Thanks to their quick action, the fire had no opportunity to spread and the resident was unharmed."
"The Brussels fire brigade would like to thank them explicitly for their resolute action and their altruism," he added.
