45 women died in a fire yesterday

[malaise]

in a Moscow hospital for drug addicts. Today eight more died in a mental hospital. Rest in peace fellow citizens of this fugged up planet.
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The fire was relatively small but those inside the hospital were unable to reach the exits or escape through barred windows.

Fears had previously been raised over safety in the Moscow hospital, but were not acted upon, officials said.

Fire safety officers visited the hospital in February and March and called for its temporary closure after their second visit, said Russia's chief fire inspector, Yuri Nenashev.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6165889.stm

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1. How utterly unforgivable. That's not one of *'s black sites, is it?

[jus_the_facts]

2. Criminal Probe Launched in Fire That Killed 10 in Missouri Group Home

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232084,00.html


Tuesday, November 28, 2006

ANDERSON, Missouri — State fire investigators were trying to determine Monday whether a fast-moving early morning blaze that killed 10 people and injured two dozen at a southwest Missouri group home for the elderly and mentally ill was deliberately set, Gov. Matt Blunt said.



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The home had fire alarms but no sprinklers, said Assistant State Fire Marshal Greg Carrell.

One of the dead was a worker in the home and the other nine were residents, Blunt said. Authorities had not yet released the names, pending notification of relatives.

"I saw the front door blow open with fire," said neighbor Steven Spears, 47, who was watching TV and saw the blaze erupt through security cameras stationed outside his home. "I know most of them (the residents). I've talked to all of them at one time or another. It still hasn't hit me."

The home is operated by Joplin River of Life Ministries Inc. A woman who answered the phone there said the firm would not immediately comment but might release a statement later Monday.

The dead ranged in age from early 20s to the elderly. Eighteen people were taken to area hospitals and six were treated at the scene. The home had 32 residents AND ONLY TWO EMPLOYEES inside when the fire was reported around 1 a.m., Highway Patrol spokesman Kent Casey said.

Two people were in serious condition at a Springdale, Ark., hospital. Freeman Hospital West in Joplin would not release the conditions of four people sent there after the blaze. All the other survivors who went to area hospitals were either in good condition or had been treated and released.

[malaise]

3. Another fire

but who cares about these poor helpless people. No sprinklers. Bet the owners are good church-going Fundies

[jus_the_facts]

7. another snip...lists two other fires where 15 died in one and 16 in another

...seems an almost common occurrence from this Faux article. :(

The home is a residential care center licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The facility also has a license from the state Department of Mental Health that allowed mentally ill residents to live at the home and receive treatment elsewhere.

The facility was cited in March for grease buildup in the kitchen, uncovered fluorescent light fixtures, allowing meat to thaw on the kitchen counter instead of in a refrigerator, allowing a resident to take more than the prescribed dose of an inhaler and not requesting criminal background checks as quickly as required by law for new two new employees. All the deficiencies were corrected within three weeks, according to the health department.

In 2003, a patient suffering from dementia and multiple sclerosis, set fire to her bed and burned down the Greenwood Health Center in Hartford, Conn., killing 16 residents. Six months later, in September 2003, a fire killed 15 patients in Nashville, Tenn.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232084,00.html

[malaise]

8. What an utter lack of humanity

Makes me sick.

[jus_the_facts]

9. Indeed...I am as well....

....I once worked for a home health business...the state laws weren't followed one iota...the poor girl with downs syndrome I cared for lived in a shit hole and went for two weeks without any a/c or heat...the old trailer had wires exposed all over it and her father couldn't have cared less about her...she'd been institutionalized for 20 years of her life in a worse hell hole...a parish run facility here that's constantly being in the news for abuse charges against the employees...the worst incident in recent memory was two women who wanted to watch the US Open between the Williams sisters...violently put a mentally handicapped man in a closet and broke two of his fingers off in the process....there isn't much *humanity* in this world...we're still animals after all.

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4. They must have been using 'faith based' sprinklers

Basic citizen protections have been hacked litterally to death under the final push of the * cabal. Tragic.

[malaise]

5. They don't give a damn

do they.

[jus_the_facts]

6. No sprinklers at all and only 2 people to get 32 people out...

...I'm sure the death toll has risen since this happened...when they showed it on the national news they told of an elderly man who kept his cat at the shelter across the street...they didn't know if he'd made it out or not...just sickening and heartbreaking...there wasn't enough STAFF on duty to get anyone out fast enough.