• Russian nightclub fire kills 103; many crushed
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PERM, Russia — Panicked clubgoers crushed each other to death in a popular Russian nightspot as they tried to flee a fast-moving fire that one eyewitness told The Associated Press was started by pyrotechnic fountains set up on the stage. Officials said 103 people died when the fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm late Friday, filling the crowded barracks-like building with thick black smoke. Authorities said they arrested the registered owner of the club and the manager. Officials said most of the dead suffered smoke inhalation or were crushed at the exit. "The fire spread very quickly," said Marina Zabbarova, chief investigator for the local prosecutor's office. "Panic arose which led to a mass death of people." News footage shot later outside the Lame Horse showed charred bodies lying in rows on the ground amid a light snowfall. Rescue workers carried bodies on stretchers into waiting vans. Svetlana Kuvshinova, who was in the nightclub when the blaze broke out, told the AP it started after three fireworks fountains spewed sparks, igniting the plastic ceiling. "The fire took seconds to spread," she said. "It was like a dry haystack. There was only one way out. They nearly stampeded me." Another clubgoer said panic spread quickly through the crowd. "There was only one exit, and people starting breaking down the doors to get out," said a woman who identified herself only as Olga, smeared with soot and wearing a filthy fur coat. "They were breaking the door and panic set in. Everything was in smoke. I couldn't see anything." Authorities set about identifying bodies Saturday morning, as ambulances delivered some of the more than 130 injured to planes waiting at the airport, where they were being evacuated to Moscow hospitals. Perm region security officials said 80 of the injured were in critical condition. The state-run Vesti news channel reported that the blaze started when a performer juggling fireworks accidentally set the plastic suspended ceiling on fire. But by late morning there was no official confirmation of this account, which was contradicted by some witnesses. Firefighters were on the scene one minute after the alarm was called in, the ministry said, and they took less than an hour to put the fire out. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigative body, said that there was no suspicion of a terrorist attack. RIA Novosti said the local branch of Russia's Federal Security Service had sifted through the site but found no evidence of a bomb. Russia has been on edge since last week's bombing of the high-speed Nevsky Express passenger train midway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, which killed 27. It was the first fatal terrorist attack outside Russia's restive Caucasus republics since 2004. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the blast. [img]http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5iytt0M9lmNyVhZdHsWwlpFDie--w?size=l[/img] [url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZ43nJGNHd1rJ3EBVRTfGsiFraEQD9CD2FJ80]OHGOD[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M[/media] :smug:
This is the exact same thing that happened to The Station in Rhode Island.
Fuck, that is terrible..
[QUOTE=Skippy!;18743029]This is the exact same thing that happened to The Station in Rhode Island.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing, woaah
Man the female dancers there were [img]http://www.insidesocal.com/tv/david-caruso-horatio-cain.jpg[/img] hot. [B][U][I]YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH[/I][/U][/B]
They were just dying to get out.
[QUOTE=Turbis2;18743128]They were just dying to get out.[/QUOTE] I sincerely hope you get permabanned for this shit you don't even realise how horrible this is... imagine you were in that crowded club, people start burning around you and others running to the exits in panic and crushing others in their way to death... I've been to a quite a few night clubs before, trust me: you don't want a mass panic to start in one (or have a fire break out that results in people burning and mass panic) RIP clubbers
Whoah, that's pretty terrible. Burn baby burn, disco inferno :dance:
Hence why it's called "Lame horse"
Чего они ожидали... "Хромая Лошадь", нда.
When you think about it, 103 victims are a shitload poeple.
So who's the faggot for not going clubbing NOW huh?
[img]http://hollywoodjesus.com/movie/star_wars_2/82.jpg[/img]
Jesus must of been high.
GTA IV mission
[QUOTE=Gordon Frohm;18743322]I sincerely hope you get permabanned for this shit [/QUOTE] Quite the spark of anger there
'Is it just me or is it hot in here?' 'Not sure its a bit war- HOLY SHIT THE ROOF'
This happened in Dublin too, years ago. :saddowns:
[QUOTE=jcallan;18744033]This happened in Dublin too, years ago. :saddowns:[/QUOTE] Stardust :(
хромая лошадь все-таки оступилась. жаль пермяков конечно.. название клуба идиотское
[QUOTE=cheezey;18743562]When you think about it, 104 victims are a shitload poeple.[/QUOTE] I say the millions of Jews dead due to the Nazis is a lot of victims.
Poor people :( Why is everyone dying this year?
[QUOTE=KevinRudd;18744366]I say the millions of Jews dead due to the Nazis is a lot of victims.[/QUOTE] That was not an accident.
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;18744045]Stardust :([/QUOTE] I was thinking of that reading this, the two incidents are awfully similar.
Burn baby burn, disco inferno!
[QUOTE=madmanmad;18745395]Burn baby burn, disco inferno![/QUOTE] Honestly I find this a bit more fitting [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhN0gh0kjY[/media] Burn baby burn should be placed in that thread about that guy that roasted his girlfriend
''Oh, baby, your on fire!'' ''Wait....HOLY SHIT YOUR ON FIRE''
It was the DJ, he played: [img]http://bp2.blogger.com/__v1z01WSGeE/SHIy1u7wQ_I/AAAAAAAAAkk/YrSRauZB6mc/s320-R/westbam.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Technopath;18746094]It was the DJ, he played: [img]http://bp2.blogger.com/__v1z01WSGeE/SHIy1u7wQ_I/AAAAAAAAAkk/YrSRauZB6mc/s320-R/westbam.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvd-C7bw8g[/media]
Only one exit? That isn't safe. Learn from this young architects. [editline]08:58AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Gordon Frohm;18743322]I sincerely hope you get permabanned for this shit you don't even realise how horrible this is... imagine you were in that crowded club, people start burning around you and others running to the exits in panic and crushing others in their way to death... I've been to a quite a few night clubs before, trust me: you don't want a mass panic to start in one (or have a fire break out that results in people burning and mass panic) RIP clubbers[/QUOTE] Trying to make someone feel empathy over the internet is like trying to get a morbidly obese person to loose weight by only using words without the letter "e", a tissue box, and a turtle.
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