Posted on 12/05/2009 11:06:32 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video taken inside a Russian Night Club that caught on fire as a result of a Pyrotechnic display that went off inside the building. The plastic ceiling caught on fire, filling the nightclub with noxious smoke almost immediately. At least 107 people died, and 130 others injured . . . (VIDEO)
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Didn’t this exact situation unfold in a NY night club a few years ago?
What am I missing that makes it seem so obvious that pyrotechnics inside (especially with low, plastic ceilings) is just really, really stupid?
It happened in Rhode Island in early 2003, if I recall correctly.
Carbon monoxide
Carbon dioxide
Hydrogen cyanide
Ethene
Ethyne
Methane
Partial list of products of combustion of modern building materials, nasty stuff.
You’d think indoor pyrotechnics would be illegal all over the world after several deadly fires in nightclubs.
Not in Perm. Ever been to Russia? Let me tell you about buildings in Russia someday.....
Station Nightclub fire in W. Warwick RI, 100 dead,
Feb of 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
Nope, never been to Russia, but even the biggest nightclubs are still small buildings and have too little space and ceiling heighth to allow fireworks to always fizzle out without landing on something.
There have been several terrible, mass casualty nightclub fires in the US. I remember one in Kentucky twenty or more years ago. Fireworks in a nightclub just insane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Supper_Club_fire
Not fireworks in that Kentucky fire, but small buildings with large numbers of people are the last place fireworks or any obvious potential fire hazard should be allowed.
Here’s one of the threads about the sentencing:
Band Manager Sobs at R.I. Fire Sentencing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629536/posts
Great White Rhode Island all over again.
My mother, a Navy nurse, escaped the Coconut Grove fire in Boston only because her pilonidal cyst acted up and she had to break her date. 400+ killed in that one?
From Wiki:
The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
On November 28, 1942, the fashionable nightclub burned in what remains the deadliest nightclub fire in United States history, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more. It is also the second-worst single-building fire in American history; only the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago in 1903 killed more (602). The tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced World War II news headlines. The fire led to a reform of fire codes and safety standards across the country and prompted a seminal study of grief. The club’s owner, Barney Welansky, who had boasted of his ties to the Mafia and to Boston Mayor Maurice J. Tobin, was eventually found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.”
The first thing I noticed was having to step so far to get into and off the elevator in the apartments.
In 1995 at the largest airport in Moscow, Sheremeteyov, they had these beat up old grocery carts for luggage carts, but I could not find one that would actually roll. A man went down in the airport and some people in white came and kind of kicked at him a bit to see if he would move.
The people in the apartments threw food out of the windows, even from the 20th story, for the many stray dogs outside in the cold winter months. There were no animal shelters.
At the Moscow circus they laid loaded pistols around near the audience in case one of the Siberian tigers escaped during the performance. (I have since returned and they apparently stopped doing that a few years later.)
In Russia you come to know God.
Wow...amazing story.
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