{"id":2677,"date":"2015-11-02T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurosprinkler.org\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:52:32","slug":"romanian-nightclub-fire-could-have-been-prevented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/romanian-nightclub-fire-could-have-been-prevented\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Nightclub Fire Could Have Been Prevented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a fire in a nightclub, started by pyrotechnics,\u00a0has killed large numbers of young people<!--more-->. At the time of writing 29 had died from a fire in a nightclub on 30 October in Bucharest, Romania. This awful tragedy is very similar to previous fires:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiss_nightclub_fire\" target=\"_blank\">Kiss Nightclub<\/a>, Santa Maria, Brazil, 2013 \u2013 242 deaths<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lame_Horse_fire\" target=\"_blank\">Lame Horse Nightclub<\/a>, Perm, Russia, 2009 \u2013 over 150 deaths<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rep\u00fablica_Croma\u00f1\u00f3n_nightclub_fire\" target=\"_blank\">Republica Cromagnon Nightclub<\/a>, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004 \u2013 194 deaths<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Station_nightclub_fire\" target=\"_blank\">Station Nightclub<\/a>, Rhode Island, USA, 2003 \u2013 100 deaths<\/p>\n<p>The Station Nightclub fire led the US government to reconstruct the disaster to see how the fire could develop so quickly and to determine whether sprinklers could have prevented the deaths. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/el\/disasterstudies\/fire\/station_nightclub_fire_2003.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a>. NIST made a number of recommendations, one being that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/public_affairs\/releases\/ri_finalreport_june2905.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">sprinklers should be fitted in nightclubs.<\/a><br \/>\nThe benefits of sprinklers are well-illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/fire\/stationfire.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">by these videos of the reconstructed fire<\/a> with and without sprinklers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a fire in a nightclub, started by pyrotechnics,\u00a0has killed large numbers of young people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}