• Hirom@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: An absolute moron fired some flares indoor, toward a highly-flammable ceiling, got 100 of his relatives killed in the ensuing fire.

    • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Whoever it was may be a moron, but fire code is designed to protect us from morons. A moron with a flare gun should not be able to accidently murder 100 people. That’s a failure on many levels.

  • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As soon as I heard about the source of ignition I thought about a similar catastrophe that happened in the USA about twenty years ago. This is terrible, but it is probably good to share it widely and in as many languages as possible. I am not sure of the best words, but it would be good to help this tragedy save others.

    • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      This has been happening since the invention of fire. People will cut corners and use cheaper flammable material where they shouldn’t (e.g. Grenfell 2017) or some stupid with a flare gun will set it off inside (e.g. Montreux 1971).

      Fire codes and building standards improve with time, but human stupidity is forever.