From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #324 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, January 1 2005 Volume 06 : Number 324 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Terrible fire in Argentina [Bobdog25nj@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:07:16 EST From: Bobdog25nj@aol.com Subject: [RS] Terrible fire in Argentina I guess many of you heard about this already. Don't know how it effects Richard per se - but what an awful thing. A very similar thing happened a year or so at a rock club in Connecticut. story is here: .................................................................... BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Emergency exits at a nightclub packed with teenagers were padlocked or wired shut when a flare ignited the foam ceiling, sparking a blaze that killed 175 people and injured more than 700 in one of Argentinabs worst disasters, survivors and officials said Friday. advertisement Some 4,000 fans at a Thursday night concert by the band Los Callejeros fought to reach the exits as burning debris fell on them. But they found at least four escape routes locked in an apparent effort to prevent people from entering the club without paying, Buenos Aires Mayor Anibal Ibarra said. bHad they been open, we surely would have avoided a lot of deaths,b Ibarra said, calling the locked doors at the Republica de la Cromagnon disco an b irresponsible act.b The clubbs name means Cromagnon Republic. Police want to question the clubbs owner, who vanished during the inferno. The concert crowd was nearly three times the venuebs capacity of 1,500 people, Argentine media reported. Investigators believe the fire was caused by a flare lit during the concert by a fan. People attending rock concerts in Argentina frequently set off flares and fireworks, and survivors said band members appealed to fans at one point during the show to refrain from lighting fireworks. At least 714 people were injured, officials said. At least 102 were in critical condition, said Julio Salinas, an official with the Buenos Aires emergency services department. The fire tore through the concert hall in the working-class neighborhood of Once, filling the club with thick, black smoke. bSomeone from the crowd tossed a flare and there were immediately flames,b said 22-year-old Fabian Zamudeo. bParts of the roof started falling down in flames and people started running, knocking over the speakers and light stands. People were choking on smoke and I tried to push as many people out as I could.b ................................................. I clipped story here...................... Damn. hard to turn on the TV these days. Tsunamis. Horrible fires. An ever increasingly strange America - sometimes I do not recognize my fellow Americans. Keep on keeping on I guess... Bob Paterson ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #324 ***********************************