[kosick]

August 8, 2020, Bohumín, Czech Republic: Eleven dead, including children, were requested by today's fire on the 11th floor of a house in Nerudova Street in Bohumín. Three adults and three children died directly in the burning apartment. Another five people were killed by jumping while escaping a spreading fire. They were members of one gipsy family. He allegedly founded an 50 years old man as a solution to neighborhood disputes - he was not a resident of a burning apartment and allegedly used gasoline. Police detained him on the spot and took him away in handcuffs. The event was announced at 17:49, at 17:54 the first unit was already on the spot. It took only a few tens of seconds to inflate the firefighter's rescue mattress.

Ten people were also injured in the fire, and two firefighters and a police officer were injured

[RogerSmithLikesDrugs]

Omg, now that's saddening

[Padraig Flaherty]

Philosophically, is that considered an act of "suicide?!"

[yesss]

Originally Posted by Padraig Flaherty ↗

Philosophically, is that considered an act of "suicide?!"

Nope, it's just choosing between the bad and the worse. In this case, burned alive vs. jumping from the 11th floor...

[soja]

Originally Posted by Padraig Flaherty ↗

Philosophically, is that considered an act of "suicide?!"

yes. probably.



either way tho it is the perfect example of a suicidal mind. sometimes the flames become too much to bare so you got to escape. maybe help would have come, maybe you would have burned to death, who knows. but instead you decided to take that plunge into the abyss...

into that fresh air. that open sky. freedom.

other option was to probably burn alive so it can be a tough choice.

[docfr8]

Terrible fucking shit

[Overlord86]

Originally Posted by Padraig Flaherty ↗

Philosophically, is that considered an act of "suicide?!"

My kids have asked the same thing about the jumpers on 9/11. I said that since death is a certainty, God sould forgive them for choosing their manner of death to end their suffering.

But I can see it as suicide as well.

Either way, this sucks. Horrible situation. The firefighters are getting water on the fire. You can see the hose streams coming out the windows on the left.

Unrelated, I always wondered why Matchbox and Hotwheel cars and their knock offs had weird looking fire trucks. TIL, they are based on actual Chinese fire trucks.

[kellyhound]

The witness said she called the fire department and the police arrived at the scene in about two minutes. "They arrested the master and asked him if he had set it on fire, and he said to them completely calm: 'Yes, he set it on fire,'" Šípková said. According to her, the man did not say a specific reason. "I started yelling at him that people lived here and he would just set fire to the house," the woman said. According to her, the police took the man in handcuffs to the car.

"It is rumored here that it was probably some family disagreement, that he had an argument with them, and thus he allegedly set it on fire," Šípková added. She added that the house was not a problem.

i call that a mass murderer

[SimoneFlen']

Absolutely horrific, those poor people.

[voidoid81]

I would want to be a “resident of a burning apartment”, my life would be so much hotter then.