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Swiss Ski Resort Bar Fire
Re: the Station, here's a drawing showing where the bodies were found. 61 bodies right near the front doors. The drawing shows the doors opening outward, but they actually opened inward. Had they opened outward, the death toll would have much lower.
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Swiss Ski Resort Bar Fire
Yep. If the fire reaches flashover conditions, even firefighters are in big trouble. Imagine what it's like for people without fire gear. When the smoke starts to come down, that's a very bad sign. Eventually, the smoke itself will ignite.
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Swiss Ski Resort Bar Fire
Wow. So needlessly similar to the Station fire. If these club owners had learned anything at all about that fire and acted accordingly, this wouldn't have happened. 100% this.
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Swiss Ski Resort Bar Fire
Yeah that fire (along with the Coconut Grove fire) is a cautionary tale most firefighters learn about in detail during training. It was also the first thing that came to mind when I heard about this Swiss tragedy. In the Station nightclub fire in R.I., the pyrotechnics were only the start of the story. There were also major issues with the exits. There was only one main emergency exit - the front entry, which most of the people in the club entered through. There were three other exits, but iirc none of them were marked as emergency exits, as one was behind the stage and was designated as an exit for the bands, and the other two were behind the bar and in the kitchen. So naturally most people tried to leave through the front door, which is what most people tend to do anyway. There was just one major problem. The front door opened inward. It should have opened outward and should have been equipped with panic hardware. Neither of those things had been installed, despite repeated directives from local fire inspectors. 90 people did manage to get out the front door, but when the fire got bad enough that people began to panick and also could not see, they flooded the narrow front entry hallway, trying to push their way out, which prevented the people nearest the door from being able to open it. They were jamming the door shut. 61 of the 100 dead were found near the front door. Sickening. The lessons learned from that single fire are extensive, and are the main reason why whenever I go to a club, movie theater, large opera house, stay in a hotel, etc, etc,the first thing I do upon arrival is scope out the exits and know which way I'm going if the shit hits the fan. Yeah, now add flammable acoustic foam on the ceiling.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
I mean, yeah, I understand it could still happen, but if we end up keeping those two after their units have sucked so badly, then wtf are we even doing?
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
Ah, sweet. It's so awesome that his buds get to stay and continue sucking.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
So, Banks gets to stay?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Yep. Many of us have been saying it for a while. And there's no shame in not being able to do both at the highest level. Not many people can do both well at the same time. The shame is in Sark seemingly not being willing to do what he should do for the team. Hire a playcaller, my dude.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
I mean, he might make it into the rotation ... for like a week, before something in his arm explodes.
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2026 Texas Baseball
I think so. I remember someone in the game thread mentioning a Jonah Williams siting.
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Sugar Bowl - #3 Georgia vs. #6 Ole Miss
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Sugar Bowl - #3 Georgia vs. #6 Ole Miss
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Sugar Bowl - #3 Georgia vs. #6 Ole Miss