Subway fire in South Korea kills dozens

[Dis]

exactly what I was saying. I couldn't help but think about the attacks in the Japanese subways. The perfect setting for chemical weapons, yet it wasn't as effective as this fire. This tells you something.

Fire is the best terror weapon. This will give terrorists more ideas.

And yes with the ventilation shutting it off is the most effective thing. This is what we did with fires in engineering spaces that normally have ungodly amounts of air blowing through them to try to keep them from getting over 120 degrees. You have to shut the ventilation off ASAP. Then you have to evacuate from smoke filled areas obviously.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Sandman
Sorry to make a political point out of this,

No, you aren't.

[DanS]

A real WTC moment. People calling their family and friends on their cell phones in paniic. Very sad.

[Dis]

It is an interesting aspect of the cell phone technology though. Not very many people get to talk to their loved ones when they die. I can't imagine what that is like.

[Q Classic]

some 130 killed in daegu subway fire (from donga ilbo, english version)
200 dead, missing in Daegu arson
(from joongang ilbo, english version)
these two are probably the most informative.

subway arson kills at least 140 (from the korea herald, and english-language newspaper)
subway arson claims more than 100 (from chosun ilbo, english version)

images:

(modified from a metroplanet map)


(from bbc)




(from cnn)


(fron joongang ilbo)

it pretty much looks like someone really screwed up here. sprinkler systems weren't even in the subway station when this happened, and the cars seem to have been made of firewood. toxic fumes from the fire hindered rescue workers, and people called loved ones before they expired.

not pretty.

[Seeker]

It's all over the news here at the Bulgogi house. Apparently the numbers were low because of the difficulty in identification.

I, or one of my co-workers, could have been on that subway.

[aaglo]

Oh my... mental issues at their worst.

[JCG]

Somebody will have to explain this kind of crap to the families, and I sure hope it's one of the people responsible.

[:) Smiley]

Who's responsible? There are three levels of responsibility.

1. The nutcase himself.

2. The government that didn't lock up the nutcase.

3. The people who didn't pressure their government to lock up the nutcase. Don't they understand, nuts are just as dangerous, if not more so, than terrorists. Every year, more people are killed by mental insanity than terrorism. Why is there no widespread opposition to it?