[b0g]

These are the kind of situations you get when you unleash deregulated free market capitalism. The corrupt politicians and the rogue business men / oligarchs had a free hand to privatise or severely cut budgets for public services.
This means much money in their hands and 1 ladder car for 1000 km² area.

[BryanXavier]

I never know why people don't start making ropes outta clothes, duct tape, belts, 8 people can probably make 30-40 feet of rope outta clothes ffs.

[peema]

Originally Posted by b0g ↗

These are the kind of situations you get when you unleash deregulated free market capitalism. The corrupt politicians and the rogue business men / oligarchs had a free hand to privatise or severely cut budgets for public services.
This means much money in their hands and 1 ladder car for 1000 km² area.

The same "situation" took place during highly regulated non-market socialism days. You still had to wait for an ambulance/fire truck for at least ah hour. Nobody gave a crap in good old USSR.

[fattubbashit]

Originally Posted by mothmon ↗

It's always the fat, dumpy ones that survive and come waddling down the ladder and the hotties who plummet & die. This is against the laws of Natural Selection! God is a trixter.

Cos us fatties hide in the fridge first

[Quidseeker]

Originally Posted by TwistedPrincess ↗

i can watch people jump to their death all day long and not feel a thing if they are commiting suicide. but something like this really gets to me. they don't have much of a choice. what a sad way to have to end ones life if they want to live.

I know, right? I mean, I can watch something like this all day long as well, and well, I just, I'm just, I....I fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap

[BLACKOUTx4500x]

This is fucking horrible, what happened?

[gatagato]

Originally Posted by BLACKOUTx4500x ↗

This is fucking horrible, what happened?

Fire in Vladivostok (January 16, 2006)

A terrible wildfire broke out in an office building in the Russian Pacific coast city of Vladivostok on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 15 others as trapped victims jumped out from windows or plunged to their deaths trying to run from the smoke and flames.

Officials said that some stairwells in the building were blocked by gates, hampering rescue efforts, and witnesses said some of the victims mostly young women jumped or fell after desperately holding onto windowsills or other objects on the exterior of the nine-story building.

The fire murdered nine people six who died at the scene, including one whose body was found hours after the blaze and three who died in the hospital, said Yulia Kozitskaya, a spokeswoman for the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry. She said 15 others remained hospitalized.

NTV television showed footage of several people sitting in open windows, their feet hanging in the air, as flames and smoke raged behind them. The station reported that all those who died at the scene had plunged from the building, and that at least 15 people had jumped or fallen.

One onlooker, Ivan Petrov, told NTV he saw three young women jump or fall. "They waited until the very last moment," he said.

"One woman was hanging beneath a window. She hung on and hung on ... and then she let go," he said.

The chief regional prosecutor, Alexander Anikin, said that "some of the stairwells were barred" by gates that apparently prevented victims from escaping from the upper floors of the nine-story building. "The evacuation was hindered," he said.

According to Kozitskaya, the fire broke out on the seventh floor, which Russian media and witnesses said was occupied by several offices of the state-run bank Sberbank, and that the floors above were also affected.

In the wake of the blaze, criminal cases were opened on suspicion of fire safety violations and lethal negligence, ITAR-Tass quoted Irina Nomokonova, a senior aide to Anikin, as saying.

"There was no means of rescuing people no ropes, no emergency exits," Alexander Babykin, an onlooker identified as a rescue worker, told NTV. "All this was ignored."

Firefighters had trouble bringing equipment close to the building because a commercial parking lot set up outside the structure was in violation of fire safety regulations, RIA-Novosti reported, citing an unnamed emergency official in the region 9,300 kilometers (5.750 miles) east of Moscow.

Russia's rate of fire deaths is roughly 10 times the rate in the United States, in part because of the lax enforcement of regulations. President Vladimir Putin said last month that fire-safety oversight bodies must do a better job.

Investigators were looking into the cause of the blaze, which broke out shortly after noon (0200GMT). Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said hours later that it had been contained, and televised footage indicated it was extinguished, the AP reports.

See also:
Vladivostok fire witnesses dispute official death toll of nine, claim at least 50

Officials Silent the Truth, the Witness Reports: More Than 50 Lost, Not 9 (in russian)

Photos taken by eyewitness

Head of burnt "Savings bank" department arrested in Vladivostok

In Vladivostok the head of "Savings bank" department Ludmila Feofanova was arrested on case of fire in this department. Feofanova was placed under guard. Accusation is brought according to article 219, part 3 of Russian Criminal code - "violation of fire safety rules by person responsible for their observance, which by carelessness led to death of 2 and more people".

During investigation of fire in Vladivostok office building it has been established that Feofanova as head of organization didn`t provide a system of fire safety, aimed at fire prevention and people rescue, in the bank building.

9 officials of bank died and 17 got injuries in fire on January 16. Earlier senior inspector of local fire inspection of Emergency Ministry was detained. He is accused of criminal negligence.

[khathryn]

Incredible. It was no less heart-wrenching to me than the 9/11 videos of jumpers. At least these folks had a chance for survival - jumping didn't mean CERTAIN death. Terrifying nonetheless.

[HeadlessHorseman]

So fucked up when jumping out the window is the best you can think of.

[HeadlessHorseman]

Originally Posted by peema ↗

The fire was in a bank office. Some people evacuated, other filed valuable document and locked everything up thus ended up cut off from the egress. The first fire truck arrived 40 minutes later (that was the good news) but could not do a thing because it was not a ladder truck (that was the bad news). Blah blah blah....
You can see that they did not start spraying water way after the ladder truck arrives, go figure why it took so long. 5 jumpers died at the scene, 12 in the hospital.

On a personal note, my uncle was having a heart attack and it took the ambulance 90 minutes to arrive. Lovely country!

Thanks for the info from the U.S. Slow response is not good, here and I'm in the country, they are here in about 5 minutes tops.