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Brazil Mourns Fire Victims Jan 28, 2013 14:25:24 GMT -1

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Brazil mourns Santa Maria nightclub fire victims

Brazil has declared three days of national mourning for 231 people killed in a nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21226565

Our hearts go out to these Brazilians in this their time of great loss.

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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Brazil Mourns Fire Victims Jan 30, 2013 0:16:37 GMT -1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 0:16:37 GMT -1 Isn't that awful!! Many years ago there was a terrible fire like that in my father's state of Kentucky - it was a nightclub, too. So sad.

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Brazil Mourns Fire Victims Jan 30, 2013 0:29:25 GMT -1

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Jan 30, 2013 0:16:37 GMT -1 @penny said:

Isn't that awful!! Many years ago there was a terrible fire like that in my father's state of Kentucky - it was a nightclub, too. So sad.

Yes. we had one in Dublin in 1981, where 48 died and over 240 were injured. That was in a nightclub too.

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Brazil Mourns Fire Victims Jan 30, 2013 15:58:26 GMT -1

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I checked Wiki; the Kentucky fire was in May of 1977 & killed 165 & injured 200+
also came across these:
Rhode Island 100 killed & 200+ injured - Feb of 2003
Russia 150 killed & 160 injured - Dec of 2009
also these were nightclubs!

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Brazil Mourns Fire Victims Jan 30, 2013 19:21:57 GMT -1

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Jan 30, 2013 15:58:26 GMT -1 @penny said:

I checked Wiki; the Kentucky fire was in May of 1977 & killed 165 & injured 200+
also came across these:
Rhode Island 100 killed & 200+ injured - Feb of 2003
Russia 150 killed & 160 injured - Dec of 2009
also these were nightclubs!

Very interesting, Penny. These fires seem to happen, when someone does something stupid, or health and ~Safety regs are not being applied properly, or there's not proper legislation in the first place. Often it a case of having to bolt the stable when the horse is gone.

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