Fire Alarm Forces 2 a.m. Evacuation at Women’s Basketball World Cup Teams’ Hotel
Someone pushed an elevator alarm button, forcing teams out of the hotel for about an hour before play resumed later that morning.
- Early Sunday morning, a fire alarm forced players and coaches to evacuate the hotel housing most Women's Basketball World Cup teams in Berlin around 2 a.m., with evacuees returning after about an hour.
- Australia coach Sandy Brondello reported no fire occurred; someone had triggered the emergency alarm button in the hotel elevator, causing the false alarm evacuation.
- Turkish coach Andrea Masson said his team managed only three hours of sleep due to the alarm, while Australia forward Ezi Magbegor noted the disruption was "out of our control."
- Australia defeated Turkey 87-71 in Sunday's first game, shaking off the overnight disruption despite limited sleep from the false alarm evacuation.
- The Americans stayed at a different hotel during the Basketball World Cup tournament and avoided the early morning evacuation entirely, gaining a competitive advantage.
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BERLIN (AP) — A fire alarm went off in the middle of the night at the hotel where most of the Women’s Basketball World Cup teams were staying early Sunday morning. The players and coaches all had
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My Mother LodeFire alarm forces 2 a.m. evacuation at Women’s Basketball World Cup teams’ hotel
BERLIN (AP) — A fire alarm went off in the middle of the night at the hotel where most of the Women's Basketball World Cup teams were staying early Sunday morning.
The fire alarms went off, and the members of the Hungarian national team participating in the Women's Basketball World Championship had to leave the hotel.
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