Music News | Rolling Stone: More than 230 people were killed in a fire that raged through a nightclub in Brazil early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports. The majority of the victims were local students, who had packed the Kiss club in the university city of Santa Maria.
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Whats with all these places locking their exits?! Isn't that the entire point of having exits that you can walk out whenever you please, or run out screaming if there is an emergency. Im not sure how similar the fire safety laws in Brazil are to those in the US, but this is the second story in as many weeks that mentioned more than one fire where many of the deaths would have been avoided had the venues been properly prepared and had not locked the guests onto the building. Its pretty frustrating, fire safety laws exist for a reason and even though sometimes they are bent for the reason of entertainment that should just mean you are that much more cautious and prepared for if and when a fire does breakout. Thats a big part of going somewhere is that even if you aren't consciously thinking about it, you are depending on the fact that wherever you are is taking the proper measures to make sure you are as safe as possible and when places don't talk that seriously they are setting up a bad name for the industry.
I find it unbelievable able that the club would even think to lock its exits. The fire regulation should be more enforced, if not change and taken more serious in Brazil after this. 230 deaths is not a small number, which is kind of a good thing because it will not go unnoticed by the government. This just shows if a performance venue is not up to safety it can cause some serious damage. When we loaded in Antigone we had to fire proof every piece of paper we put up, even though there was no open flames or pyrotechnics being used. In addation to there those in charge had numerous conversations about what our safety precautions were if there was a fire. It is because of this I always remember, what can go wrong will go wrong and at the worse possible moment.
It is very sad to see another tragic happening after shooting at Connecticut. However, this time I see it as the nightclub manager's fault. Nightclub hires security guards for people's safety. If they are the one who hampered the escape and led hundreds of people into death, who would feel safe and relaxed to go to nightclubs? Also, I can't believe how they lock the exit of the club. Another point is that they used Sputnik, the machine that create luminous effect with sparks. As long as anything is related to sparks or fire, I think that the manager has to order to let the door opened. It is so sad to see how so many students who went to entertained after long days of school had to be killed because of carelessness. I hope that the security law gets stricter, so that there is no more regrettable disaster.
I don't know what the fire safety laws are in Brazil, but regardless this is a tragedy and this must be very difficult for the survivors and the families and friends of those who perished. The pyro ignited the fire which spread very quickly and most of the dead apparently were asphyxiated. Many smaller night clubs in many parts of the world have probably 2 exits/entrances or just one. Unfortunately this nightclub only had one exit. Survivors and the police said security guards briefly tried to block people from exiting the club. This isn't uncommon because Brazilian bars routinely make patrons pay their entire tab at the end of the night before they are allowed to leave. Hence why the guards would have blocked them at first. Also this was a fete organised by students and had over 1000 people inside of the building. Imagine a stampede of people raging towards an exit and the guards not knowing what was going on inside. Hopefully this will make people pay more attention to event venues and to using effects in small enclosed places. Amazing that most members of the band made it out unharmed.
Locking the exits was, as has been said, a very dumb idea. April mentioned fire safety rules, which do exist for a reason, but may not be the same in Brazil as they are in the US. I think they will definitely be re-evaluated after this tragic happening. Whenever you go anywhere, it is sort of expected that they've thought about what to do in case of an emergency. But the truth is that, although some things have inherently been put into place, it's often not a major circumstance on anyone's mind. Take the theatre for example. Sure, we've all thought "Well, if there's a fire, we can do this." But nobody really expects it to happen or is all that prepared for it on any given day.
What the actual fuck! There are exits for a reason! No wonder so many people died, you trapped them and sent them to their death. It was an accident that this happened, and being able to tell whether this will happen and when and what not is not easily measured. But the whole point of having safety procedures in case something bad happens is to actually use them. This irks me so much, who hired such idiots to "secure" this club "correctly." It sucks that faulty equipment was used and that it caused this accident. If this were to happen in a school, they would go on with the fire drills we rehearse practically 3 times a month, instead of being like "sucks kids, you're all going to burn." I just can't believe something like this happened. No wonder RI banned pyrotechnics in the way they did.
I am so confused, I feel like the article could have mentioned why the exits were locked. Also whether it was before or after the fire started. It seems to me that was after cause it doesn't really give any explanation. But then WHAT? I feel like there is going to be a lot of finger pointing but it looks like it was the fault of the night club. Those guards were doing their job, whether or not they should have listened being a different story, it is still the fault of the Night Club owner. But also WHAT? why would they lock the doors, I feel like there is some missing information here
Why had the security guards locked the exits?! Isn't that against fire code? I agree with Isaac in wishing the article went a bit more in depth as to exactly how and why things happened. I do hope that the doors were locked before the fire started, as there is, a very stupid, but possible reason for that if they didn't have enough security guards to secure the area, whereas if they locked to exits sometime after the fire had started it might could as negligent homicide, or the Brazilian equivalent
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