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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 28, 2013, 1:22:30 AM1/28/13
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/27/fire-in-nightclub-kills-at-least-
0-people-injures-200-in-southern-brazil/
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina � Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in
southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked
partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a
single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the
world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Witnesses said a flare or firework lit by band members may have started
the blaze in Santa Maria, a university city of about 225,000 people.
Television images showed smoke pouring out of the Kiss nightclub as
shirtless young men who had attended a university party joined
firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at windows and walls to
free those trapped inside.
Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city's fire department, told the O
Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club
because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance."
Teenagers sprinted from the scene desperately seeking help. Others carried
injured and burned friends away in their arms.
"There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a
long time for people to get out, there were so many dead," survivor Luana
Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.
The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and
ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said.
Another survivor, Michele Pereira, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper
that she was near the stage when members of the band lit flares that
started the conflagration.
"The band that was onstage began to use flares and, suddenly, they stopped
the show and pointed them upward," she said. "At that point, the ceiling
caught fire. It was really weak, but in a matter of seconds it spread."
Guitarist Rodrigo Martins told Radio Gaucha that the band, Gurizada
Fandangueira, started playing at 2:15 a.m. "and we had played around five
songs when I looked up and noticed the roof was burning."
"It might have happened because of the Sputnik, the machine we use to
create a luminous effect with sparks. It's harmless, we never had any
trouble with it.
"When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extinguisher, the singer
tried to use it but it wasn't working."
He confirmed that accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the
five other members made it out safely.
Police Maj. Cleberson Braida Bastianello said by telephone that the toll
had risen to 233 with the death of a hospitalized victim -- he said
earlier that the death toll was likely made worse because the nightclub
appeared to have just one exit through which patrons could exit.
Officials counted 232 bodies that had been brought for identification to a
gymnasium in Santa Maria, which is located at the southern tip of Brazil,
near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.
Federal Health Minister Alexandre Padhilha told a news conference that
most of the 117 people treated in hospitals had been poisoned by gases
they breathed during the fire. Only a few suffered serious burns, he said.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff arrived to visit the injured after cutting
short her trip to a Latin American-European summit in Chile.
"It is a tragedy for all of us," Rousseff said.
Most of the dead apparently were asphyxiated, according to Dr. Paulo
Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the medical school of the Federal
University of Santa Maria who went to the city's Caridade Hospital to help
victims.
Beltrame said he was told the club had been filled far beyond its capacity
during a party for students at the university's agronomy department.
Survivors, police and firefighters gave the same account of a band member
setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze, he said.
"Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say
that at least 90 percent of the victims died of asphyxiation," Beltrame
told The Associated Press by telephone.
"The toxic smoke made people lose their sense of direction so they were
unable to find their way to the exit. At least 50 bodies were found inside
a bathroom. Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit
door."
In the hospital, the doctor "saw desperate friends and relatives walking
and running down the corridors looking for information," he said, calling
it "one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed."
Rodrigo Moura, identified by the newspaper Diario de Santa Maria as a
security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between
1,000 and 2,000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape.
Santa Maria Mayor Cezar Schirmer declared a 30-day mourning period, and
Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, said
officials were investigating the cause of the disaster.
The blaze was the deadliest in Brazil since at least 1961, when a fire
that swept through a circus killed 503 people in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.
Sunday's fire also appeared to be the worst at a nightclub since December
2000, when a welding accident reportedly set off a fire at a club in
Luoyang, China, killing 309.
In 2004, at least 194 people died in a fire at an overcrowded nightclub in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seven members of a band were sentenced to prison
for starting the flames.
Several years later, in December 2009, a blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub
in Perm, Russia, killed 152 people after an indoor fireworks display
ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches.
Similar circumstances led to a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people
in the United States. Pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock
band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and
ceiling of a Rhode Island music venue.
The band performing in Santa Maria, Gurizada Fandangueira, plays a driving
mixture of local Brazilian country music styles. Guitarist Martin told
Radio Gaucha the musicians are already seeing hostile messages.
"People on the social networks are saying we have to pay for what
happened," he said. "I'm afraid there could be retaliation."
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest and most fearful people in the
history of the United States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America after known mentally
disturbed liberal Adam Peter Lanza killed 20 school children and 6 adults
in Sandy Hook Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Every single liberal
inspired and authored gun control law in existence failed to prevent this
tragedy.
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0-people-injures-200-in-southern-brazil/
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina � Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in
southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked
partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a
single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the
world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Witnesses said a flare or firework lit by band members may have started
the blaze in Santa Maria, a university city of about 225,000 people.
Television images showed smoke pouring out of the Kiss nightclub as
shirtless young men who had attended a university party joined
firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at windows and walls to
free those trapped inside.
Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city's fire department, told the O
Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club
because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance."
Teenagers sprinted from the scene desperately seeking help. Others carried
injured and burned friends away in their arms.
"There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a
long time for people to get out, there were so many dead," survivor Luana
Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.
The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and
ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said.
Another survivor, Michele Pereira, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper
that she was near the stage when members of the band lit flares that
started the conflagration.
"The band that was onstage began to use flares and, suddenly, they stopped
the show and pointed them upward," she said. "At that point, the ceiling
caught fire. It was really weak, but in a matter of seconds it spread."
Guitarist Rodrigo Martins told Radio Gaucha that the band, Gurizada
Fandangueira, started playing at 2:15 a.m. "and we had played around five
songs when I looked up and noticed the roof was burning."
"It might have happened because of the Sputnik, the machine we use to
create a luminous effect with sparks. It's harmless, we never had any
trouble with it.
"When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extinguisher, the singer
tried to use it but it wasn't working."
He confirmed that accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the
five other members made it out safely.
Police Maj. Cleberson Braida Bastianello said by telephone that the toll
had risen to 233 with the death of a hospitalized victim -- he said
earlier that the death toll was likely made worse because the nightclub
appeared to have just one exit through which patrons could exit.
Officials counted 232 bodies that had been brought for identification to a
gymnasium in Santa Maria, which is located at the southern tip of Brazil,
near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.
Federal Health Minister Alexandre Padhilha told a news conference that
most of the 117 people treated in hospitals had been poisoned by gases
they breathed during the fire. Only a few suffered serious burns, he said.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff arrived to visit the injured after cutting
short her trip to a Latin American-European summit in Chile.
"It is a tragedy for all of us," Rousseff said.
Most of the dead apparently were asphyxiated, according to Dr. Paulo
Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the medical school of the Federal
University of Santa Maria who went to the city's Caridade Hospital to help
victims.
Beltrame said he was told the club had been filled far beyond its capacity
during a party for students at the university's agronomy department.
Survivors, police and firefighters gave the same account of a band member
setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze, he said.
"Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say
that at least 90 percent of the victims died of asphyxiation," Beltrame
told The Associated Press by telephone.
"The toxic smoke made people lose their sense of direction so they were
unable to find their way to the exit. At least 50 bodies were found inside
a bathroom. Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit
door."
In the hospital, the doctor "saw desperate friends and relatives walking
and running down the corridors looking for information," he said, calling
it "one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed."
Rodrigo Moura, identified by the newspaper Diario de Santa Maria as a
security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between
1,000 and 2,000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape.
Santa Maria Mayor Cezar Schirmer declared a 30-day mourning period, and
Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, said
officials were investigating the cause of the disaster.
The blaze was the deadliest in Brazil since at least 1961, when a fire
that swept through a circus killed 503 people in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.
Sunday's fire also appeared to be the worst at a nightclub since December
2000, when a welding accident reportedly set off a fire at a club in
Luoyang, China, killing 309.
In 2004, at least 194 people died in a fire at an overcrowded nightclub in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seven members of a band were sentenced to prison
for starting the flames.
Several years later, in December 2009, a blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub
in Perm, Russia, killed 152 people after an indoor fireworks display
ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches.
Similar circumstances led to a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people
in the United States. Pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock
band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and
ceiling of a Rhode Island music venue.
The band performing in Santa Maria, Gurizada Fandangueira, plays a driving
mixture of local Brazilian country music styles. Guitarist Martin told
Radio Gaucha the musicians are already seeing hostile messages.
"People on the social networks are saying we have to pay for what
happened," he said. "I'm afraid there could be retaliation."
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest and most fearful people in the
history of the United States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America after known mentally
disturbed liberal Adam Peter Lanza killed 20 school children and 6 adults
in Sandy Hook Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Every single liberal
inspired and authored gun control law in existence failed to prevent this
tragedy.
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Bret Cahill
Jan 28, 2013, 1:40:45 AM1/28/13
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> http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/27/fire-in-nightclub-kills-at-le...
before Hurricane Andrew.
Bret Cahill
> 0-people-injures-200-in-southern-brazil/
>
> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in
> southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked
> partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a
> single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the
> world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Libertarian Brazil has no building codes -- much like Florida City
>
> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in
> southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked
> partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a
> single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the
> world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
before Hurricane Andrew.
Bret Cahill
Klaus Schadenfreude
Jan 28, 2013, 7:24:36 AM1/28/13
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>Bret Cahill <BretC...@peoplepc.com> wrote in talk.politics.guns :
http://paraibaparadise.com/index.php/come-to-joao-pessoa/living-in-joao-pessoa/building-in-brazil/brazilian-building-code/
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