tragic, prayers for those lost. Need to regulate fire and matches!!
Reminds me of the Station nightclub fire in W. Warwick RI around ‘02 or so; 400 were jammed into the place and 100 died including one band member, as well as a 19 yr old college student DJ (Nichols Coll.) etc. I drove by the site once and noticed how small the plot of land was and thought, the building itself had to have been very tiny and they jammed
400 in.
And most headed out the way they came in, not knowing about other exits or maybe thinking it was the safest one to use.
Many of the victims were jammed near that main entrance.
The Dederian Bros. owned the place IIRC and Jeff was a reporter for Ch 12 Providence. A nightclub fire killed some patrons in Chicago a week or so before and he thought it would be a great time to do a segment about safety in nightclubs and what better place than his own (plug plug plug). So a Ch 12 newsteam was there and filmed it. (As did
at least one person with a camcorder or something who left via the back door just behind the band, and provided footage of the inferno—or maybe it was a Ch 12 cameraman, don’t know.)
Electric wiring, too. The rights of the few cannot come before the safety of the many. Diane Feinstein said so. The founding fathers agree with her. She said so, so it must be true./sarc