Deadly Fire In Brazil by: Vincent Bevins

In the Los Angeles Times, there is an article about a nightclub in Brazil that caught on fire, because of a flare lit by the live band. The flare caused the roof catch fire, and because of the inhalation of smoke and asphyxiation 232 people died. Authorities in Santa Maria spent the day rescuing survivors, and going through the tragic aftermath of the fire. "There are so many bodies that we couldn't get all the way to the back of the nightclub," Lieutenant Moisés da Silva Fuchs told local media, referring to the now-destroyed Kiss club in Santa Maria, near the Uruguayan and Argentine borders(LATimes). When the people of Brazil woke up they were shocked with images of firefighters pulling out people from the nightclub and trying to put out the nightclub. The President Dilma Rousseff, cancelled her plans of going to Chile and instead traveled to Santa Maria, she also was filled with emotion and tears. "I'd like to tell the population of our country, and of Santa Maria, that we are all together in this moment," Rousseff said. Most of the victims were students of local Universities. It was stated that the main entrance door was locked during the fire, but that statement was denied by the main DJ at the club, DJ Bolinha. The DJ told officials that people were pushing each other in order to rescue themselves from the fire. These are some facts about how most of the fires occur at nightclubs, "A welding accident reportedly set off a Dec. 25, 2000, fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309. At least 194 people died at an overcrowded working-class nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004. A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out on Dec. 5, 2009, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152. A nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003 killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling"(LATimes). This article proves that a great night can have a turn for the worst in just a blink of an eye, and can be the worst night ever, killing many people.