Nobody learns.
On the evening of February 20, 2003, a fire occurred at The Station, a nightclub and music venue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band Jack Russell's Great White, an offshoot of the original Great White band, a pyrotechnic display ignited flammable acoustic foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. Within six minutes, the entire building was engulfed in flames. The fire remains the deadliest firework accident in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It was also the second-deadliest nightclub fire in New England, behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire.
As an aside: there's a lyric from a song by Deep Purple in their song "Smoke on the Water" that described a fire in Switzerland a bit over 54 years ago.
Some stupid with a flare gun.
On December 4th, 1971, During a performance by Frank Zappa and the Mothers in Lake Geneva Switzerland, a fan fired a flare gun and caught the hall on fire. The casino at Montreux burned down, destroy all the equipment. The event was immortalized by Deep Purple in the song "Smoke On The Water".
I tip my
chapeau to those helicopter professionals who came to assist. Well done!
Originally Posted by KiwiNed
13 HEMS machines and they also moved patients outside Switzerland as apparently all burns beds in the hospitals in the country are now full. Pretty massive effort by everyone involved.