Post by Prosay on Dec 29, 2017 8:09:56 GMT -5
There's something more to this fire than what's being publicly disseminated.
As the above article states, this is the worst loss of life in a fire since the Happy Lands fire in the Bronx, and that was out-right arson, compounded by a TOTALLY illegal place of public assembly.
This fire was a run-of-the-mill tenement, the type of building where fires occur almost daily, especially in certain neighborhoods. And as anyone who has ever worked in those "certain neighborhoods" knows, when there's a fire of any magnitude, the first car on the scene sees tons of people running out the entrance and dozens more on the fire escapes. Yet, in this one, each apartment that they opened had more casualties in them, almost to the extent that they made no move to get out.
Usually in this type of fire, the casualties are in the original apartment on fire, or the one above it. These casualties were on several floors.
There are now news reports that possibly there was an ignited gas line in the building. I guess it could be that this gas line MAY have leaked for a period of time (but the boiler still did work) causing a carbon monoxide leak through the heating vents. The ignition of this gas line was secondary to this original leak. Possibly someone tampering with the line, maybe an attempt to "tap into" the gas line, which failed.
The only other thing I can think of is that, despite the building being on fire, the people thought it was too cold to exit the building and decided to take their chances and stay warm.
Otherwise, this loss of life in such an otherwise "common" fire is somewhat hard to comprehend.
As the above article states, this is the worst loss of life in a fire since the Happy Lands fire in the Bronx, and that was out-right arson, compounded by a TOTALLY illegal place of public assembly.
This fire was a run-of-the-mill tenement, the type of building where fires occur almost daily, especially in certain neighborhoods. And as anyone who has ever worked in those "certain neighborhoods" knows, when there's a fire of any magnitude, the first car on the scene sees tons of people running out the entrance and dozens more on the fire escapes. Yet, in this one, each apartment that they opened had more casualties in them, almost to the extent that they made no move to get out.
Usually in this type of fire, the casualties are in the original apartment on fire, or the one above it. These casualties were on several floors.
There are now news reports that possibly there was an ignited gas line in the building. I guess it could be that this gas line MAY have leaked for a period of time (but the boiler still did work) causing a carbon monoxide leak through the heating vents. The ignition of this gas line was secondary to this original leak. Possibly someone tampering with the line, maybe an attempt to "tap into" the gas line, which failed.
The only other thing I can think of is that, despite the building being on fire, the people thought it was too cold to exit the building and decided to take their chances and stay warm.
Otherwise, this loss of life in such an otherwise "common" fire is somewhat hard to comprehend.