Brazil nightclub fire: 'Like a war zone' with bodies piled

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'Blocked by security'
The band, Gurizada Fandangueira, was a popular attraction at Kiss in part because of its pyrotechnic show, according to Billboard.com. It played at the nightclub about once a month, and was there Sunday to promote a new album.
Martins, the guitarist, told Radio Gaucha the band had been on stage for about 20 minutes, finishing the fifth song of its set, when it set off its "sputnik" pyrotechnics -- sparkler columns that shoot up in the air.
"We used it all the time. ... We never had this problem before," he told the radio station late Sunday.
Martins said he first noticed a small ember, and then he looked up at the ceiling and saw the flames.
A backstage hand attempted to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher. "But it didn't work," he said.
Martins said as he and the other band members got off the stage, there were 20 to 30 people in front of him who were "being blocked by security."
People started pushing and shoving, and then they tripped over one another trying to get to the door.
Martins said the band's accordion player, 28-year-old Danilo Jacques, died in the fire. "I saw him, and then I lost him in the crowd."
Struggling to help
Esequiel Corte Real and his friends arrived late for the show and ended up with what they thought was one of the worst locations to watch -- by the exit.
The same happened with Norton Basson and his friends, who were at the club to celebrate his 29th birthday.
They are alive, they believe, because of where they were -- making them among the first to make it out alive.
After the fire started, the dark, narrow hallway that led to the nightclub's exit was choked with smoke and people trying to find their way out.
Outside, Corte Real and his friends could hear the screams of people trying to escape.
He told Globo TV that he and his friends ran back into the club to try to help.
They pulled out one body. Then two more.
"Somebody must be alive," he said.
Basson and his friends, meanwhile, grabbed rocks, sticks and an axe they found at a nearby building and began trying to knock a hole in the side of the club to help those trapped inside. Others soon joined them with shovels and more axes.
Firefighters used the hole Basson and his friends created to get inside the club.
There, they were greeted by the eerie sounds of cell phones ringing in the pockets and purses of the dead. Many of the calls were from parents desperate to reach their children.
The missing
Later Sunday, family members wept as they searched for information outside a local gymnasium where bodies were taken for identification.
Inside, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with relatives as they waited on bleachers for word of their loved ones. She had been attending a regional summit in Chile, but cut short the trip and returned to Brazil early to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy.
"The Brazilian people are the ones who need me today," she said. "I want to tell the people of Santa Maria in this time of sadness that we are all together."
Ericmar Avila Dos Santos went from hospital to hospital Sunday, searching for his 23-year-old brother.
Hours earlier, he learned in a telephone call from a friend that his older brother was among those missing following the fire.
His family scanned lists, talked with police officials. They checked with friends, searched everywhere.
They finally found him -- among hundreds of bodies laid out on body bags at a makeshift morgue at a local gym.
Rhode Island victims 'can't help but watch'
"I was supposed to go with him. I didn't feel like going out. He ended up there without me," Avila Dos Santos said, openly sobbing over his brother's coffin outside the gym.
On Monday, the first of Brazil's three days of mourning, the three cemeteries in the city of 260,000 were packed with families readying to bury their dead.
Among them was Avila Dos Santos' family.
"We did everything together. We were even studying the same major," he said, remembering his brother. "Now that he's gone, I'm lost. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life."

[Miami Vice]

"Люди гибнут за металл" (ц) Экономили сцуки, боялись что зайдут бесплатно через пожарные входы. Я ваще до сих пор не врубаюсь в систему брания за вход в клубы когда можно просто рубить капусту на ценах на дринки. Тогда никому и не придет в голову запирать пожарные входы и боятся бесплатных посетителей.

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http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%...B4%D1%8C%C2%BB

[Eric007]

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%...B4%D1%8C%C2%BB

Aurbo, в российских новостях срузу провели параллель. Очень похожий сценарий.
А Смешно не мешало бы знать, что самый крупнейший пожар среди ночных клубов с человеческими жертвами произошёл в свё время именно в Бостоне. около 500 погибших.

[Манюня]

ой надо же, в день рождение моих детей
помню заголовки фотографировала, везде тока было про приговор американке в Италии
которая обвинялась в убийстве руммейтки
наверно на следущий день тока новость дошла

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%...B4%D1%8C%C2%BB

[Miami Vice]

Aurbo, в российских новостях срузу провели параллель. Очень похожий сценарий.
А Смешно не мешало бы знать, что самый крупнейший пожар среди ночных клубов с человеческими жертвами произошёл в свё время именно в Бостоне. около 500 погибших.

Сравнил 1942ой год и 2013. Ну так с тех пор и ввели кучу правил которые худо бедно работают. И не работают только тогда когда их нагло нарушают. Как это делали в Провиденсе, 40 миль от Бостона лет 10 назад. А там где не нарушают такого кол-ва жертв и в помине не бывает.