So is anyone left alive to read this? Am I the last person left alive?

I'm surprised none of the "hot young Brazilian clubgoer" headlines made it.

this headline sucks

Mrtraveler01: Wow, and I thought the one in RI was bad.

I can't believe it's been 10 years since that happened.

Same here.  Actually played there a few times, and to this day I still don't know how it feels to be so goddamned dumb that lighting anything larger than a lighter on that stage was a GOOD idea.  Hell, never mind the whole "flammable walls" thing, you could touch the light rigs while you played!

\and don't get me started on the fire inspectors, they deserved prison time as much as everyone else

This is scary. Always scope the out exits. I try not to be too far from them in a crowded building.

Great reporting...
"He said at least 200 people were injured. The cause of the fire is not yet known, officials said. The total number of victims is still unclear and there may be hundreds injured,"

The Nina and the Pina wanted for questioning?

snark aside, this is horrible. I've never once considered something like this happening to me, And I've been to raves before where there were 20,000-30,000 stuffed in on one dance floor (like at the Staples Center) on New years eve.

Kyosuke: Uchiha_Cycliste: Great reporting...
"He said at least 200 people were injured. The cause of the fire is not yet known, officials said. The total number of victims is still unclear and there may be hundreds injured,"

BENGHAZI!!!!

Of course! It's all so clear all of a sudden.

They even had fireworks inside the Staples Center, with multiple tens of thousands of us all packed in there.
Jesus,...

Kyosuke: Or people need to stop covering the walls and ceilings with extremely flammable material.

The problem is, despite the full knowledge that said materials could save lives, they still charge a ton for them.  IIRC, it would've cost the Derderians about $350-400k to soundproof the main room at The Station, and that was for maaybe 2000 square feet of soundproofing, ten years ago. (None of which would've worked, BTW - they still had solarium windows in the pool room directly off the main floor.)

Mrtraveler01: Uchiha_Cycliste: They even had fireworks inside the Staples Center, with multiple tens of thousands of us all packed in there.
Jesus,...

Yes, but I will guarantee you that the Staples Center isn't insulated with flammable material and that they didn't set off fireworks next to it.

It's one thing to do it in a sports arena, it's another to do it in a regular sized building.

That's all true. But if (god forbid) something did somehow go wrong and a big ire did break out... I mean, we are squeezed in there like sardines on the main dance floor, especially at midnight.

In a strange way it actually pays to be a hipster.

If your favorite band is a one-armed Mongolian who atonally throws discarded batteries against overstretched rubber cargo tie-downs while reciting "Mr. Belvedere" scripts with the punctuation removed and he only plays "pop-up" gigs in the kitchens of abandoned Arthur Treacher's franchises, you can be fairly sure your life will be panicked-trampling resistant.

skinink: Regarding the RI disaster, I read somewhere that a lot of people died in the doorway of the club because as people tried to escape the fire, they would fall/accidentally get pushed down. Then the people in back of them would fall on top of them.

40 out of the 100 that died there died in the exit hallway, or directly leading into it.  At least a few of those deaths are also retraceable to Great White & the security dumbasses who blocked the stage door for a minute or two before realizing they were in trouble.

I have played many gigs in which I was keenly aware I would be trapped if a fire were to break out.

Serious Black: badhatharry: This is scary. Always scope the out exits. I try not to be too far from them in a crowded building.

What's an out exit? Does it differ from an in exit?

I meant to say scope out the exits.