[Lucignolo]

A fire starts... You're in a tiny packed place, no emergency exits, JUST GO AWAY! Before flames and smoke engulf you! No, it's better to record some clip with your fuckin phones

Fucktards, just remember 2003 The Station Nightclub fire...

[franknitti6]

In the EU there are very strict fire prevention rules and any establishment should have clearly marked escape routes. Seems like the owner is in a lot of trouble (especially since the venue is visited by rich kids w/ parents who are going to sue into oblivion)

[franknitti6]

The girls with the helmets are waiters and one of them climbed on the back of another person (can be seen in the third pic). This is why the ceiling catched fire causing 40-60 ppl to die. Very very sad, the waiter probably ignored some safety instructions or was unaware of them.

[Meridian]

Acoustic foam insulation and pyrotechnics - did no one learn anything from The Station fire?

Those kids were too drunk to realise the danger they were in until it was too late.

[Noose]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

Another year, another club/bar/concert fire caused by fireworks and probably flammable acoustic foam or other materials.

Trump might not be able to avert nuclear war, but I bet he could stop fires from use of fireworks / open flame in indoor public areas. He could pass laws for USA, and enforce the ban internationally by strafing nightclubs overseas caught using fireworks with AC-130 gunships.

You're still drunk from NYE bro.

[terrence]

Pictures

[tissuedamage]

No one learned from station

[darkmor]

Flashover is a rapid and dangerous transition in a fire where a room suddenly ignites almost everything inside at once.

What happens physically

• A fire starts and heats the surrounding air and surfaces.
• Hot gases and smoke accumulate near the ceiling and radiate heat downward.
• Objects in the room heat up until they begin pyrolysis (releasing flammable gases).
• When the average room temperature reaches roughly 500–600 °C, those gases ignite almost simultaneously.

The result is a near-instant change from a localized fire to full-room involvement.

Key characteristics

• Occurs in enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces.
• Driven primarily by radiant heat, not flame spread.
• Happens very fast—seconds, not minutes.
• Marks the point where survival without protection is essentially impossible.

Warning signs before flashover

• Thick, dark, rolling smoke at ceiling level.
• Rapidly increasing heat felt at floor level.
• Flames “licking” through smoke (ghosting).
• Windows blackening or starting to fail.

Flashover vs. backdraft

• Flashover: heat-driven ignition of contents inside a compartment with oxygen present.
• Backdraft: oxygen-starved fire that explodes when fresh air is introduced.

They are often confused but are fundamentally different mechanisms.

Why it matters

• Flashover defines a critical threshold in fire behavior.
• Firefighters train specifically to recognize and avoid it.
• Building materials, room size, ventilation, and fuel load strongly affect timing.

One-sentence summary

Flashover is the moment a fire stops being “a fire in a room” and becomes “the room itself is on fire.”

[jsundqui]

Wow from the pictures you can see the initiating event where waitress ignites it by accident.

Flashover takes time to build up the temperature enough, it's not like it engulfed the entire room at the moment those pics above were taken.

I am sorry but I enjoy a bit that this happened to rich, spoiled kids.

[roLov12]

These things will continue to happen, as tragic as that may sound. We already have lots of past examples of similar things, where flammable things such as polyurethane foam for acoustic insulation resulted in massive indoor fires killing dozens and hundreds.

There was the massive fire in Rhode Island in 2003, in Argentina in 2004, in Wuwang in China in 2008, in a nightclub in Santa Maria in Brazil in 2013, in Bucharest in a nightclub in 2015. All the same issue.

Despite having clear laws about fire safety with polyurethane stuff in all these countries, needing checks after retrofitting etc in developed countries, people will just continue to find shortcuts like doing it DIY and not telling anyone or cutting corners to pass the checks.

You can add more checks and more laws and more stuff but in the end, you cannot have total surveillance of every single thing every owner of every place does behind doors.

Even if you ban every imaginable pyrotechnics for every single person, people will find a way to smuggle them in.

If we haven't found a way to eradicate these sorts of things after 22 years of public examples and stuff like this happens in one of the wealthiest regions on earth, we likely won't do much better in the future.