article on night clubs

Disasters at clubs repeat tragic history

By Big Wolf

Over the decades, from the Cocoanut orchard to the Beverly Hills Supper Club to The Station, the formula for a nightclub disaster is ever so the same: too many battalion, too few exits and too little time to escape.

The two calamities last week that killed 118 people in clubs in wampum and western United States Warwick, R.I., were the latest in a series of tragedies over a period of 60 years, each of which led to reforms that have made such disasters slight likely.

Nevertheless, non impossible. Not if the improved sentry go rules are not enforced or observed. Not if those who inspect, operate and patronize nightclubs morsel like characters in a Twilight Zone episode, curst to endlessly ask a painful lesson, forget it and learn it again.

This could happen anywhere in the United States, says Paul Wertheimer, a crowd safety consultant based in Chicago. The puzzle is lax enforcement of existing safety laws (and) a recklessness of the industry.

The Chicago nightclub where 21 people died early Monday after the exercising of pepper spray to break up a interlocking touched off a stampede was open despite a court order. The Rhode Island fire, which killed 97 late

Thursday, was ignited by the criminal use of fireworks during a rock show.



The club had passed a safety inspection six weeks ago.

The fire in Rhode Island was the nation is deadliest in a quarter-century and the worst in the history of rock n roll. It surpassed a 1999 stampede at a concert in Minsk, Belarus, that killed 53 people.

At the two clubs last week -- The Station in West Warwick and E2 on Chicagos Near South Side -- there was no emergency evacuation plan, no emergency planning, no instruction to manage...

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