Nightclub Turns Into GAS CHAMBER Killing 242 University Students In One Night

[Music]. bada bing badao Gustavo stumbled out of. the nightclub he's barely keeping his. balance I mean even to get out of the. nightclub he had to put his hands up. against the wall to guide him out. usually when you first open those doors. and you walk out that fresh crisp night. air just compared to the scent of liquor. and smoke inside the club it's. refreshing but Gustavo didn't really. feel that tonight he just felt dizzy. almost like he's hallucinating he would. look up and the sky was dark it's black.

but it's like a thick black color like. imagine the night sky but it's made out. of cotton candy it's dense you almost. kind of want to grab it and then. everything went black the next time. Gustavo opened his eyes he's laying on. the cold pavement next to somebody else. who is also peacefully sleeping he. slowly gets up to not lose his balance. and he starts walking he's just kind of. wandering around aimlessly did he drive. why can't he remember if he drove did it.

really even matter Gustavo thought well. I mean I could drive home right but all. I want to do is get home it doesn't. matter how I just want to get home and. take some painkillers like Advil and. then everything's going to feel better. in the morning he starts walking down. the street and he noticed that people. are looking at him with very concerned. scared cautious looks he's like what do. I have something on my face he's swiping. his cheeks there's some sort of gray. pigment on his fingers he looks back up.

and a man comes up to him and splashes. water onto his arms like a cup of water. just splashes him with it Gustavo. instinctively pulls back it's very. strange everyone tonight is acting very. strange but Gustavo didn't really feel. the cold water much it didn't bother him. so in order to not start a fight or. weird conversation he just kept it. moving then another woman yells after. him hey you need to call an ambulance no. no ambulances are for the ones who need. need it you need it something's wrong.

with your body no don't worry it's just. my shirt I tore it up at the club and. it's all shredded anyway Gustavo could. feel his shirt it was shredded and. hanging off of his body and every time. he walked he would feel it swaying and. hitting other parts of his torso the. woman looked at him very concerned sir. you're not wearing a. shirt Gustavo walked towards a Street. Lamp and he looked down at his arms the.

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it was a little weird for lilianne to. walk through the club when the music. isn't playing it was unnervingly silent. Captain Lilian was in charge of the. military Brigade hospital so she's. tasked with being one of the very first. people to go into the club after what. happened the police officers are. trailing in behind her and almost at a. reflex they turn around to walk back out. because they don't want to be in here. even a second longer but they sto them. eles turn back around and there's just.

tears streaming down their faces lilan. turns to them don't cry if you cry who's. going to do our jobs we have no right to. be weak right now the worst has happened. our job is to return these boys and. girls to their parents as soon as. possible this is not the time to. cry lilianne shines the flashlight. around the dark Club they all just stare. out in silence into what's left of the. Dance Floor wait what is that did you. guys hear that it's a phone.

ringing and then another and another and. it's like a sick Symphony harmonizing. with each other dozens of phones were. going off at the same time lilianne. stared out at the bodies that were piled. 5 ft high on top of each other it was. like a mountain made of human bodies. some were seemingly uninjured when you. look at them from the outside there's. not a single scratch on them but still. they were laying there dead s had their.

skin melting off like when you put. plastic or rubber into the oven by. accident and you turn it on and all of. their phones are going off at the same. time every single call would go to. voicemail that night at kiss nightclub. an establishment frequented by college. students 632 people would be injured 242. people would be killed and most of them. would be between the ages of 18 and. 21 Mike looked at his 7 friends in front.

of him these are like his best friends. okay they they're going to understand. right guys I'm just not feeling it I. don't really want to go out tonight I. might have to skip this one like don't. be upset with me it's going to be fine. you guys will have a blast they're all. staring at him and they're like yeah no. we're going to go come on it's Andre's. birthday she only turns 22 once you want. to come don't you yes you do you can't. miss this one Mike looked at his left. then his right and his friends just. looked so eager and happy like how do. you say no to them. they didn't even have class tomorrow.

it's the weekend so his friends they're. looking at him with these puppy dog eyes. come on Andre's favorite band is going. to be performing okay okay fine I'll go. all of his friends start cheering kiss. nightclub even on a normal weekend I. mean it's got a reputation for being a. very Rowdy place they said if you want. to go watch a UFC fight you go to kiss. the establishment is notorious for. drunken fist fights side note the club. is also notorious and ni named kids by.

the locals because how easy it is for a. minor to get in the rumor has it you. could have a potato sack for your. picture on your fake ID and you would. still likely get in but tonight it just. seemed a lot crazier than normal I mean. it was college night meaning the club. had made a deal with the local. University so the University was going. to host a party night invite all of the. students not even just from their campus. but from all of the neighboring schools. each person each student trying to get. in is going to have to pay a $3 cover. fee there would be two bands performing.

so it's kind of a great deal and that. cover fee all of that would go to the. University's graduation ceremony. fund so school was involved yes well. like a Student Association of the school. now the club benefits because once the. students get in I mean they're going to. be buying drinks bottles reserving VIP. tables it's a very lucrative deal for. them so typically on a normal weekend. the club has about a th000 people in. attendance tonight.

there were rumors of 2,000 people mainly. college students squashed inside of that. club like just squished like sardines. Mike couldn't even see the floor anymore. it was so crowded to the point where. even walking to the one of the two. restrooms in the club it would have been. an absolute Journey so andreal arrives. with her closest friends and everybody's. staring at her just Jaws on the ground. because she usually likes to wear loose. pants and sneakers this time she made an. effort she's wearing a dress high heels.

and they pull andreal to the dance floor. right in front of the stage and they're. screaming along with all the songs. dancing with each other and Andrea's. best friend pulls her in closer and puts. her face up to her ear I'm going to use. the restroom real quick she was not. going to use the restroom she was. squeezing her way through the crowd to. get to the back of the stage and she. gave one of the band members a note. please please please can you guys play. baracho IL Loco it means drunk and crazy. please is my best friend's favorite song. and it's her birthday today please.

please please please please the. bandmates nodded and the lead vocalist. turned on the mic this one's for andreal. who's celebrating her birthday today now. the high energy is going to stay with. the group I mean even when Andre's. favorite band goes off the stage and is. replaced by another group that she. doesn't even really know Andrea's so. busy like ear to ear smiling with her. friends this was going to be the best. night. ever and then the lights go out the. entire Club goes dark and all you can.

hear are the. screams Jess was laying in a hospital. bed she knew that if she fell asleep she. would die she knew that so why are the. doctors telling her to get some rest it. was very tempting to just lay back close. her eyes for just a moment relax she was. so tired to unclench her jaw finally but. she knew that if she slept for too long. The Woman in Red would appear again. calling her name reaching out her hand. drawing her in and she knew it was all. the drugs right she's hallucinating. but still she's scared to follow the.

woman in the red more and more patients. were being brought in and many of them. with the same injuries and symptoms as. Jess many of them were stunned to just. be alive how did you get out how did you. escape I almost didn't I saw someone. screaming that they were leading me to. the exit and when I turned around to. follow them my friend yanked my arm and. said no that leads to the restroom it's. a dead end we got to go this way she. saved me who is the person screaming at. you guiding you I don't I don't know it.

was a woman in red survivors started. popping up everywhere claiming that they. had seen a woman in red calling people. into the restroom of the club When the. Lights Went Out telling them that it was. the exit but once they got there they. were trapped and they would have just. three minutes to get out or else they. would be dead more than 100 bodies would. be found in the bathroom and it's all. because of a firework did you know. Disney is the second largest buyer of. explosives in the world of of explosives. yeah only behind the United States.

Department of Defense but if we're. measuring by fireworks and ignoring the. other types of explosives Disney is the. largest buyer of fireworks in the entire. world you say United States government. they buy a lot of firework explosives. fireworks are considered explosives yeah. got it now Disney World does a firework. show every single night and each show. costs around. $40,000 now some of that goes to. purchasing the fireworks but a majority. of that goes into hiring pyrotechnicians.

so these are Specialists that are. professionally educated and certified to. oversee the use of pyrotechnics during. any event pyrot Technics are any sort of. firework any sort of like fire show that. includes usage of gunpowder and gas to. create these. Sparks every concert that you've been to. that has any sort of firework they. probably got a lot of pyrot technicians. there yeah I mean to make sure that the. fireworks do not work like an explosive.

weapon but rather a display of art that. takes a lot of time to learn because. fireworks are literally like bombs to. set off most fireworks the user lights a. fuse the heat travels all the way to. this compartment in the tube or the. container that has gunpowder I mean. there's this very special type of. gunpowder that goes in there it's called. black powder now once the heat reaches. it it starts responding by creating a. very very hot gas but it's trapped. the gunpowder is trapped on top of it is.

a shell it's like a round it's just like. a ball and inside the ball there's a. bunch of stuff but it's a ball sitting. on top and once the gas is hot enough. once it's gassy enough the shell on top. of the gunpowder is going to be launched. catapulted into the sky and once it. reaches a certain speed or altitude it's. going to burst open and everything. inside is going to technically explode. usually there's a ton of small pellets. in there that contain like a whole. variety of things chemical compounds. different metal salts I mean those.

result in colors and effects like. sparkling being made cuz you know how. some fireworks they sparkle yeah some. pellets even have chemicals inserted. that cause special noises like potassium. chlorate results in a large boom sound. and then bis smouth creates kind of a. more crackling popping noise with some. fireworks if you fill that tube with. other compounds that are not necessarily. going to be used for the firework. display once it shoots up those can. actually cause that um a slow down of. the pellets so it creates that Whistling.

noise that you hear in a lot of. fireworks they manufactur the sounds as. well the Alcohol Tobacco and explosives. divisions in the government stated. display fireworks these types of. fireworks are subject to regulation. under Federal explosive loss because. they are explosives if you're not. careful with fireworks you could lose a. finger or a face or even die doctors. working the ER stated working the. weekend of 4th of July in America is. kind of kind of like a war zone there.

was a man that walked in with his entire. hand blown off and almost a gaping hole. that you could see through in his. stomach they stated that he was drunk. trying to position a firework away from. him and blow it off into the sky but. after realizing that he lit the fuse he. realized it was pointed at him instead. of up at the sky so very last minute he. tries to cover it he puts his hand to. the tube and it blew off his entire hand. and it went into his stomach the. firework during the 4th of July another.

kid took a construction hard helmet. taped a large firework to the top of it. and then lit it on fire cuz he thought. he would just it would just shoot off. his. helmet the bottom of the firework got so. hot it melted through the helmet and. then into his scalp and then into his. brain in the matter of seconds he did. not even make it to the. hospital people get injured so often. with fireworks there's even a term for. it for hand injuries they call it pom. Gran at hand because it's going to blow.

off all your fingers feel like it's kind. of offensive but that's just to show I. guess how frequent these injuries happen. a member of Disney World's pyrotechnic. team would go on and say anything can. happen at any time it's explosives it's. fireworks something is going to happen. it's not if it's when now I wonder like. how many accident happened in the. history of Disney that must be yeah I. believe a firework company somewhere in. Europe if I'm not mistaken where a fire. work exploded and because they did not.

house the rest of their fireworks well. the all the fireworks that they had in. their warehouse exploded at the same. time it was really bad it I think it had. like a bomb level reaction it was. horrendous so now the owner is asking. what exactly do you need the fireworks. for Marcelo was the lead vocalist for. the band that was going to be performing. at kiss nightclub for University night. it's college kids he feels like they. need to have all the crazy Antics set up. up so Marcelo makes his way to the.

firework shop and the owner is asking. him about how are you going to be using. it how many people I mean is it going to. be outside inside I'm trying to. recommend the appropriate one I mean. I've used these before I just need one. of those big sparklers like you know. that just shoots out it's like a stick. and thousands of Sparks come out and and. you see those at the clubs right oh at. the club okay well if it's inside you're. going to need the indoor one it has cold. spark so it's much harder for it to. ignite something or someone it's $15.

1515 okay since you're performing at a. fundraiser for University students I'll. give you a discount let's make a 10. today well how much is this one that one. is cheaper it's but it's not indoor safe. well how much is it it's 50 well then. I'll take this one. $99.50 would cost. $242. lives the order of songs and artist. performs during their concert is. incredibly meticulous and it leans into.

human psychology I mean yeah they want. to sing the songs that they want to sing. but they say concerts are like a live. animal you have to raise up the emotion. start with a well-loved song that. everybody knows the lyrics too then you. got to get in with another hit keep. maintain that momentum then you bring it. down slow slow it down just for a little. bit if you slow it down for too long. people are just going to walk away. feeling let down then you need to rise. it up again but this time higher than. the last and then let it down again and. then at the end you need to have some of. the biggest hits better hits for the.

Encore not even for the finale because. the memories of the last few songs are. the strongest for concert goers it's. more like a wave that finally crescendos. into a tsunami at the. end now when Marcelo is looking out into. the crowd everybody already has both. their arms up they're swaying in the air. they're jumping up and down screaming at. the top of their lungs and they're only. like a few songs in what more is the. band going to do so the lead vocalist. lean down and tells the band producer.

give me the firework that I prepped this. was the band's go-to for an epic finale. so the firework it looks like I said. like a giant candle like a giant tube. that generates like a trail of sparkles. so not just a steady flame but thousands. of angry Sparks will just be flying out. of it the vocalist and the producer they. light it up the singer has a glove on. his hand and he lights up the firework. he lifts his arm up above his head which. is dangerous the stage was already. raised to a level where if you stood on. the stage and you were above average.

height you lift your arms above your. head you could almost touch the ceiling. but Marcelo is lifting up a huge. firework that can shoot Sparks up to 13. ft out of the top and he's raising it up. towards the ceiling a big trail of. sparkles are just shooting out of it and. one of the Sparks meets the foam. insulation on the ceiling and a small. blue fire starts almost like when you. turn on a gas stove that color blue it. looks like that on the ceiling and it's. small the band producer tries to think.

quick and he throws a water bottle up at. the ceiling to try and tame it to put. out the fire it only makes the fire. angrier the blue fire turns into an. enraged red flame that's quickly. spreading across the entire ceiling. hurry get the fire extinguisher one of. the employees runs onto the stage with. the extinguisher he aims it up to the. ceiling squeezes the handle and [ __ ] he. looks back down at it he shakes it with. both hands and then he aims again and. tries it again nothing.

[Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. [Applause]. thing allegedly a few days ago an. employee had used the extinguisher at a. friend's birthday party at the club he. thought it would be fun and wild to just. pop the tamper seal off the extinguisher. and spray it onto the people on the. dance floor it like a little party like. a party X Vibe he was screaming at the. crowd like ah and everybody's just. getting sprayed with the extinguisher pH. home and it's supposed to be for fun. it's supposed to be like the most insane.

party in town and allegedly they did not. order another one they just put it back. into the same spot and nobody thought. that they would actually need it for the. intended purpose anytime soon so water. is not going to put the fire out this is. a fire that water is only going to make. angrier the fire extinguisher isn't. going to put it out because they don't. have any and the fire is only getting. bigger there are black fumes that are. now billowing from the ceiling black. clouds just rushing towards people on. the dance floor the fire on the ceiling. starts spreading out almost in A Perfect.

Circle it almost looks like a portal is. opening up above everyone like a portal. to Hell the black clouds would spread. within 40 seconds to cover the entire. Club even if you ran as fast as you. could to the nearest exit you would look. behind you and you would see everything. slowly getting covered in black mist and. fog it looked like it's chasing you. Marcelo the lead vocalist Who lit the. firework he's standing right in front of. the mic he could have just leaned in and.

screamed get out. fire but he didn't he u-turned and ran. the other way he was one of the very. first people out of the club that night. there were clubgoers in other rooms of. that club that did not even know there. was a fire until it was too late you. mean they're trapped in there yeah. because the ceiling was made out of. polyurethane do you know what's in your. mattress so back then it used to be. Springs maybe some fabric and some fancy.

stitching but these days it's just foam. it's just layers and layers of foam. stacked on top of each other and for a. very long time polyurethane foam was the. more affordable memory foam mattress. composition that's what it was mainly. made out of the overwhelming majority of. that mattress would be made out of. polyurethane and polyurethane can kill. you so you're sleeping on a fatal weapon. every single night but don't freak out. polyurethane is in everything you can. never Escape it it's in mattresses B. Bing bath mats the foamy ones do you.

know what I'm talking about it's in car. seats carpets it's in your walls it's in. your insulation you can probably find. polyurethane basically in every single. part of your house and it's fine as long. as you don't light it on fire when it's. on fire the gases that are released will. kill you in about 3 minutes polyurethane. releases when it's on fire carbon. monoxide and hydrogen cyanide hydrogen. cyanide is basically just cyanide but. instead of the white powder form it's in. gas or liquid form it's just as deadly.

if not deadlier some experts argue it's. one of the most dangerous forms of. cyanide out there back when the US did. executions via the gas chamber hydrogen. cyanide poisoning was the cause of death. for a lot of. inmates that's what they used so. basically that's what the club is yeah. now a gas chamber the first stages start. taking effect at the very first. inhale it's a suffocatingly heavy. feeling like someone maybe a 150 lb man.

is sitting on your chest and you try to. breathe and get a full breath in but at. this point it's not working you can't. lift your chest and you start. hyperventilating because your chest. feels so tight and then it slowly. evolves the person sitting on your chest. somehow transforms into a 9,000lb. elephant that's what it feels like and. now you really can't even move the veins. and your neck and your eyes they start. bulging out you feel like you're choking. you start coughing but it only makes. your chest hurt more and your face is. red your jaw feels like it's completely.

clenched and suddenly you are completely. out of oxygen your vision starts to go. fuzzy your brain starts shutting down. and you just want to go to sleep if. you're lucky that's what's going to. happen you're going to go to sleep. otherwise the convulsions start the body. starts to jerk uncontrollably every. single muscle is stiff and tight and at. this point your lungs are completely. paralyzed even if you want to take a. breath you. can't by the the 5minute mark death is. absolutely.

imminent a while back before the. University party kiss nightclub owners. started getting complaints every day for. noise pollution neighbors started saying. that they could not sleep they could not. function because there would just be. music playing blasting into their homes. at 3:00 a.m. on any given night so. please you got to do something about it. or I will call the police the club. Owners looked into special non-flammable. acoustic foam that can block out the. loud noises of the band but the owners. allegedly decied deed to purchase. mattresses instead they allegedly had.

the employees rip them apart and glue. them to the ceilings because foam is. foam right like what's the difference. between acoustic foam other than a huge. price markup this was a DIY project. you're saying yeah now some sources say. that it was not from a mattress that. they purchased polyurethane foam by. itself some sources say that they took. it from a mattress either way you're not. supposed to do that you're not supposed. to do that you're not supposed to glue. polyurethane foam onto the ceiling they.

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minutes and when people get to the front. door the exit the guard is standing. there sorry I can't let you out what do. you mean you can't let us out move out. the way we're going to die in here they. could hear the screams coming from the. other room of the club it's just another. bar fight get out more if you think this. is the biggest danger you're going to. face I need your full name first why do. you need my full name I need to get out. just open the doors we're going to die. in here wait they don't let them leave. the club when they want to no you can. leave once we verify that your tab has.

been paid if you don't pay you don't get. to leave and guess who ends up paying it. if you don't me it comes out of my. paycheck so boss's orders give me your. full. name they stood there screaming a crowd. had formed around the guard demanding to. be let out but he's not budging he has. no idea there's a fire they he thinks. they're making it up like fire my ass. you're drunk and you need to pay your. tab he stood there like a rock keeping. them trapped for 40 seconds people. around them start slowly dropping to the. ground coughing hunched over holding.

their throats and then the black cloud. started chasing towards the exit then. the lights went out and boom someone had. kicked the door open 40 crucial seconds. were Wasted by the guards not wanting to. let people out because they needed to. make sure that they paid their Taps the. fire would eventually get to the. electrical wires of the structure and. all of the lights would be shut off. people could not see anything there were. no emergency lights indicating an Escape. Route which is against all code and viol.

like that's such a violation of. Permitting you need to have emergency. lights because of the electrical wiring. the only light that was still on inside. the entire Club in this basically. windowless dark Club was the light. inside the bathroom and that was not. even intentional it's just maybe it had. a different circuit and all 2,000 people. they're trying to go there because they. think it's the. exit the layout of the club was is kind. of like a maze so if you look down from. above there's only one way in and one.

way out and the giant single level floor. and separate rooms so they're not. necessarily divided by doors but when. you first walk in there's this big. rectangular room and on the left there's. bar stools and then there's steps that. lead to a wall now this wall has like. arched cutouts doorways without the. doors and that leads you into the stage. room where the the there's another bar. there's a whole stage set up people are. dancing ing on the floor it's fun then. you walk back out to where you just came.

in from on your left now you have a. restroom it's one of the two restrooms. you go past that and on the right you're. going to see a VIP area with another bar. it's almost in its own little Nook as. well almost like another room then you. walk back out towards the exit but you. don't keep going straight you make a. left that's where the restroom is but. it's a dead. end it was confusing enough of a layout. that first time clubgoers would go to. purchase strings at the bar and would. get lost on their way back to their. friends or sometimes clubgoers would.

hear screaming coming from one side of. the club they would just assume that it. was another bar fight because they. didn't really know and then the bathroom. to some people that bathroom light. looked like an exit sign others said it. resembled street lights like if someone. had just opened the door and you saw. street lights coming in that was the. exit right there that's what people are. thinking so as long as you can get there. you could survive that's what everybody. thought just follow the light and they. ended up in a dead-end bathroom people.

were screaming at them in the dark turn. back this is not the exit turn back this. is the. bathroom everyone would turn around and. if the lights had turned they would see. that there's no way to turn back around. I mean there are hundreds of more people. pushing into the restroom trying to get. through they're trying to push them out. into an exit that doesn't exist more. than 100 people would be found dead in. that tiny little restroom one man was. found dead with his head dunked into the. toilet because he had been trying to.

escape the toxic fumes he had been. trying to stay. alive in other areas of the club nobody. could see anything they just heard. screaming coughing crying and because of. the fumes and the heat from the fire. people are starting to pass out on the. floor wherever they were on their way to. find an exit they would just drop they. would just pass out in the middle they. were getting disoriented from the fumes. of the melted toxic foam and if someone. tripped on an unconscious body on the. ground they would get trampled over with. very low chances of getting back up they.

would be crushed to death by this point. the fiery portal that was burning. through the ceiling started to literally. rain chunks of flaming hot foam if a. piece so much as touched one of the. attendees skin it would have felt. similar to the sensation of accidentally. touching the hot racks of an oven as. you're pulling out a frozen pizza except. you can't pull your arm away it's just. there you have to hold on to the burning. rack once the steering 400° f foam. touches the skin it would have clung on. like Saran Wrap if they tried to swipe.

it off with their hands the foam would. just Scorch their hands it would blister. through every layer of skin and their. skin would just come off as they were. removing the foam like Saran Wrap likely. it would have disintegrated the. underlying muscle and tissue as well. even the people that were able to reach. the exit door I mean they they couldn't. get out there were metal barriers set up. right outside the club door to prevent. people from running out without paying. their to it's like a pool railing so. when everyone is pushing up against you.

you can't get over it you don't have. enough space to move your leg up and. over the railing because everyone is. slamming into you from behind you don't. have enough space to crouch down. underneath it because your stomach is. getting squashed you can't slide down. down to underneath the metal bar so even. though the exit door is right in front. of their faces they could just Reach Out. And Touch it with their hands they. cannot Escape is this inside or outside. this is still inside they have barri. inside the right right in front of the. door right in front of the door they.

couldn't escape passerbys on the street. had seen the commotion they saw the. thick black smoke mushrooming from the. club it could be seen from like a mile. away at this point passerby ran up to. the exit door yanked it open and started. just pulling people out clubgoers would. be passed out from lack of oxygen being. crushed up against the railing or the. fumes and a stranger would just grab. them by the underarms and lift them out. others had to be grabbed by their. clothes because passer by saw that they. had had third degreee burns on their. arms and um this is something that comes.

up but a lot of people would try to grab. someone by their arm and the skin would. just fall off so they would have to find. different ways to grab them to get out. of the. club that night hundreds of calls were. made to 911 please I'm seeing here from. my building a thick horrible smoke. coming near kiss nightclub screams are. coming out horrible horrible scene. please hello 911 everything is burned. here hello fire department kiss. nightclub is on fire the kiss nightclub.

is on fire help many parents and family. of the attendees had made it to the club. in the middle of the night they had. gotten out of bed they had heard word. that kiss nightclub was on fire and they. remember their loved ones were going to. be in attendance they rushed to put on. whatever clothes that they had and. traveled as quickly as possible to the. nightclub there was a traffic jam. outside the club for. Miles some parents just completely. abandoned their cars and started running. on foot to the club to find their their. babies they would have one phone to. their ear non-stop calling their kids.

non-stop calling 911 while running up to. every gray suit covered person so. they're all covered in Gray dirt just. trying to get the dirt off their face to. see is that my baby is that my. baby one parent called 911 please just. tell me what happened please just tell. me my daughter was in there she was at. the party on that street what's going on. another parent just screams into the. phone where's Fernando where's Fernando. where's Fernando. in another call the 9911 operator tries.

to comfort one of the dads that called. looking for their son they're okay. they're okay no everyone inside is dead. man yes inside but not your son I don't. believe. you nobody was very clear on what's. going on what everybody knew was there's. a huge large scale fire at the kiss. night club there were deceased victims. sped out on the street outside of the. club there were periodically new victims. rushing out of the club but inside it. was completely pitch black most victims.

were covered head to toe in gray suit. making them look like zombies what took. people a minute to realize was just how. many people were still trapped inside. the. club there were already so many people. lined up outside so many bodies lined up. on the street and people were trying to. cover their bodies with plastic bags. things got difficult though when parents. had to go body to body and lift up the. plastic sheet and check to see if any of. the bodies belong to their child and if. they found their child laying there I.

mean what do what do they do they would. just fall down and weep over their. bodies it just felt like nobody was. coming to. help meanwhile at the local hospital Dr. D's colleagues they're a little. superstitious all of them they all kind. of believe in bad Omens when it comes to. work Dr D does not entertain any of. those the whole if any healthcare worker. in the emergency department utters the. words it's been a quiet day huh then. everything goes to [ __ ] and it's going.

to be pure chaos he doesn't really. subscribe to those beliefs but it has. been awfully calm it did oddly feel like. they were waiting for a storm there had. been no serious emergency in the past 7. days that even required an ambulance to. be dispatched in the whole city that was. not normal or at least for their. hospital it wasn't normal even Dr D. didn't have a good feeling about this. the day after his shift around midnight. he was driving home with the music on he. passed by KISS nightclub saw a line of.

young students waiting to get in college. days are a different time you know like. his wife and parents that he's got to. take care of in a different town so no. nightclubs for him he goes home he. crashes onto the bed and the phone. starts ringing he shoots up grabs it. from the nightstand Patricia his wife is. up and staring at him eyes wide because. it's 3:30 in the morning you only get. one type of call at 3:30 in the morning. the bad ones it was Dr D's colleague Dr. Pedro what why is he calling at this.

hour hello wa wait slow down what's. going on Dr D pulls his phone away from. his ear because Dr Pedro is screaming on. the other line loud enough for even Dr. D's wife to hear fire fire please come. to the kiss nightclub right now dead. students. everywhere Patricia saw her husband turn. into another man his eyes are focused he. jumps out of bed in a fluid wave of. motions he grabs his change of clothes. his medical bag goes to the kitchen. opens the fridge grabs three coets and. shoves them into his pocket because he.

knows in these moments he doesn't know. when his next meal is going to be and he. needs to stay sharp Patricia prepared a. cab for him and by the time that he made. it to the club Only 5 minutes had passed. sir Taxi Driver are you sure there's no. faster way to get to the club they look. in front of him and there are just rows. and rows of standby traffic there's. they're all at a standstill no cars are. moving Dr D reaches into his pocket gets. a wad of bills out throws them at the. taxi driver and starts running on foot. to the club he felt like he was a doctor. in a war zone that's what he said people.

were walking around the street like. zombies all gray from the fumes and. coughing firefighters had arrived. there're hosing down parts of the. building and taking axes to the side of. the building to try and open up a bigger. exit way civilians are dragging. unconscious friends onto the street and. Performing CPR bodies are lined up on. the side neatly in a road they're. unmoving they're dead some people were. just dazed they kept walking around. everyone lost confused because the fumes. had disoriented them so much they didn't. even realize that they had 40% burns on.

their bodies ambulances are trying to. rush in and out of the scene carrying. stacks of bodies to the nearby hospitals. Dr D spots Dr Pedra on an ambulance. drenched in sweat performing CPR without. even saying a word he gets to work side. by side they would search each victim. brought out for signs of life when they. had none they would have volunteers move. their bodies out of the ambulance no. signs of life we need to move on we need. to keep moving but but civilians would. refuse what do you mean no signs of life. she's still warm her cheeks are red she.

look she looks like she's sleeping she's. not bleeding she doesn't have any Burns. or injuries she's alive you have to save. her you're not doing your job she's. clearly. alive many of the young people weren't. burnt a a good amount of them were and. they had really severe burns that would. require them to stay in the burn unit. for a very long time but a lot of the. victims had died from smoke inhilation. so other than the gray dust covering. them and sticking to their hair they all. just looked like they were taking a. nap so a lot of their friends and family.

they could not trust the. doctor you have to keep trying I'm. telling you she's alive like she doesn't. even have a cut on her body in the. moment Dr D was too focused on getting. to the next victim that it didn't really. set in but later he must have felt very. odd like an odd sense of guilt he didn't. want them to be dead either he didn't. want to give up on them either but they. were gone what more could he do he said. there would be moments where he would. break Focus for 2 seconds he would look.

up at the sheer chaos and just the pure. desperation in everyone and he would. just have a full-blown panic attack. setting it and he would have to talk. himself out of it no you cannot lose. control right now people are depending. on you for a chance at. survival wait what are they doing over. there Dr D sees a group of young men. taking off their shirts grabbing a water. bottle and drenching the shirts in water. covering their faces with it and running. inside to rescue.

people he didn't know if these were. complete strangers he didn't know if. these were people who had been inside. the club that escaped that still had. friends inside or if they were family. members that showed up at the scene. after the fire broke out or maybe they. were volunteer Fighters he didn't know. all he knew is all of them would be. found dead by the end of the. night the people that ran inside they. would die trying to save more. lives we need more ambulances to. transport victims to the hospitals they. need to get to an emergency facility now.

most of the hospitals nearby had sent. every single ambulance they had they. were overwhelmed with victims Dr D looks. around and there's no more ambulances. left and a taxi driver raises his hand. and another hand shoots up and it's a. civilian it's a passer by then another. Taxi Driver they would all help. transport the injured to local. hospitals 16-year-old Julio had called. his mom at 4 in the morning and she woke. up frantic what's wrong why are you. calling me did something happen no it.

it's just austo his older brother austo. said he was going to pick me up at 2:30. so we could go home but he never showed. up and I've just been kind of waiting. for the past 1 and 1 half hours I heard. there's something going on at kiss. nightclub and last I talked to austo he. said he was going to go there I don't. know what's going on their mom hung up. and woke up their dad in a hurry they. both threw on whatever clothes they had. they grabbed a set of keys to their. family Honda their car but they realized. it was gone austo had taken it that. night shoot they don't have a car so. they rushed to their neighbors I'm so. sorry to bother you at this hour but.

please trust us we would not ask unless. it was absolutely necessary our son took. our family car and something's happening. at the nightclub I don't know if you. heard you could ask anybody something's. happening could you please just take us. there they jump into the neighbor's car. and they start making their way there. augusto's dad was a mess he was really. close with his son he never had a close. relationship with his own dad and. augusto's dad has always been kind of a. very stoic man he was a milit man since. he was young and augusto's very first. word was life-changing to him it was.

like a gut punch because instead of mom. or dad his first word was SVA which. according to our Brazilian researcher. means jungle and it's kind of a greeting. term that you say to a military. man and augusto's dad did not want that. kind of relationship with his son so he. changed his whole life he changed his. way of parenting of communicating and. ever since then they were like best. friends this was his best.

friend when the neighbor's car pulls up. closer to kiss nightclub augusto's. parents start to panic any hope that. they had was rapidly exiting their. bodies it was utter chaos they run out. of the car and they Sprint to the club. and stop stop stop they stop dead in. their tracks because in front of them is. a long line of dead. bodies they hold on to each other. because otherwise they would have. fainted they try to look for a Gusto's. face in the line but nothing they try to. peer into the club there's nothing it's. pitch black nobody's telling them what's.

going on the best shot that they had was. augusto's Dad pulls out the spare key. for the family Honda we got to go to the. parking lot and search for his car if we. find it we know that he's still in here. and he might be in in in there in the. club they start going row by row. clicking the button to see if any car. beeps and if any of the lights glow up. please don't be here please don't maybe. he went out with friends somewhere else. and forgot about his brother and his. phone died and he's just having fun fun. they push the unlock button for the. family Honda and they both freeze they.

click it again and a few cars down they. hear beep. beep it's the family's black. Honda austo would die that. night in front of the club everyone is. just talking over each other I mean. people are screaming I looked behind me. and I saw a young man and his skin was. melting off I took off my heels because. I didn't want to step on people they. were like piled a few feet high I just. step on them to get out please please.

just let me go back in let me go back in. I have to save my girlfriend she's still. in. there javanni was standing outside the. club frantically scanning every face. that ran out the door he had been one of. the first to escape but his brother and. their two friends were still in there. jaavan was holding on to his ribs. coughing and scanning the faces his. brother I mean there's no way he's going. to go home without his brother javanni. wet his T-shirt tied it around his face. now side note jaavan had been in in an. accident 10 years ago where he lost 40%. of one of his lungs but he forced.

himself to take the biggest breath that. he could and he ran back inside and the. plan was to go find where his brother. was to retrace their steps and he would. get his brother out but once he got in. he saw people. crawling how is he going to ignore them. to go find his. brother like he can't just push past. these people to go find his brother. that's not what his brother would have. wanted so he just starts pulling people. out the first person he grabbed he. grabbed their arms to pull them but they.

slipped and their burned skin was in. javan's hands jaavan had to think quick. he started grabbing Men by their belts. and women by their shirts and he formed. a bit of an assembly line with other. volunteers they were just passing bodies. until they were reaching the outside his. eyes were stinging his lungs felt like a. thousand needles were inside just. embedding themselves it'd be another. person and he'd tell himself one more if. I can just get one more person out just. one more and he would keep pushing. himself most of the bodies he saved were.

semiconscious and covered head to toe in. Grays suit they were unrecognizable. especially in the dark we don't know. exactly how many people jaavan was able. to save but he had originally done all. of this in an attempt to save his. brother whom he believed was still in. the back of the club javanni would be. hospitalized and he would be defeated. until his parents got a call javan's. brother was alive he had been handed off. by joavan to an ambulance and he did not.

even know that was his brother because. he was covered head to dough in. dirt Dr Erton was a trauma surgeon at. the local emergency department he had. just received a call that hundreds if. not closer to a thousand University. students had been injured by a fire and. they were going to be transported to all. of the emergency departments nearby Dr. Erton gathered his entire team got them. prepped everything we've done and. learned up until this point was for a. reason we cannot fail these kids. everybody needs to be ready we are at.

War custodial staff we're going to need. all hands- on Deck grab the oxygen tanks. we need to keep them circulating. distribute them to whoever comes in and. needs them and prepare the rooms every. spare room that we have in this hospital. that is not occupied by an existing. patient transform it into a makeshift. ICU unit and if we run out of rooms put. beds in the. hallways they called neighboring. hospitals to request immediate delivery. and Loan of their respirators doctors. and nurses from neighboring towns were. also making their way over it was an all.

Hands-On deck All Hail Mary. situation Santa Maria is known for being. a University City a college town so. there are seven private universities and. a major public university it amounts to. about 40,000 students in that City and. there's only seven hospitals emergency. departments and five of them ICU units. and six of them and all the freestanding. smaller emergency units around the city. were going to be quickly overwhelmed. with the victims from the fire loved. ones of attendees were already gathered.

outside the hospitals it was getting. nearly impossible to get near kiss. nightclub with the traffic jam so they. thought let's just wait at the hospitals. that way if we see our loved ones being. escorted in we can be by their side many. of the hospitals needed to start. manually ventilating the patients with. oxygen masks and air pumps that means. instead of a machine cuz they ran out. there would have to be staff manually. pumping a bag and if they stop a patient. dies. Dr aon's nearly 300 beds fill up so fast. they need more help more supplies more.

beds Dr Aon didn't want to alarm anyone. but it was very obvious that it's not. just a regular fire because at this. point they have no idea it's hydrogen. cyanide all the patients coming in from. Kiss needed to be intubated intubated. meaning inserting a tube into someone's. throat for ventilation they needed to be. intubated fast even if patients walk. into the hospital seemingly fine they'd. be like no no no I I was in the fire I'm. fine I'm just a little bit dizzy but I. I'm breathing now the coughing is. stopped but if they weren't intubated Dr.

Erton would turn around and they they. would code all of them needed to be. intubated Dr Erton was so laser focused. going from one patient to another I mean. the hospital is a wreck there patients. piling on each other almost every few. seconds you would hear someone screaming. code blue code blue doctors would just. be running down the hallway some. patients look normal not a single. scratch on their skin when they coated. other patients had very deep EXT ex. stream Burns all over their skin there. were screams of pain coughing people. were coughing so hard they were throwing.

up blood skin was shredded and melting. off like candle wax from victims. blisters there were red white and blue. and just black patches of human flesh. that didn't even look human mixed with. blood and then the hospital door slammed. open and there laying on a hospital bed. was Dr aon's son his wife was by their. son's side and their son was coughing he. was blw around the mouth and having. difficulty breathing all Dr Aon wanted. to do was freeze that is his son but.

then he remembered the words of a famous. surgeon in an emergency situation if you. think too much a patient dies we have to. intubate him Dr aon's son grabbed his. hand Dad please no I don't want to be. intubated I feel okay I have to or you. will die he intubated his son. immediately and rushed him to the. ICU meanwhile Dr D called the Air Force. this is an emergency we need to take. Desperate Measures or the patients will. die I need your help okay what do you.

need we need to airlift patients to. neighboring towns okay how many patients. do you need to airlift 3. 4 at least. 50 but there was a problem with the. survivors most of them were being. brought in unconscious or they were. being intubated meaning they cannot. communicate with the hospital staff most. of the guys being brought in had their. IDs in their pockets but many of the. women that were brought in they. typically kept it in their wallets in in. their purses and those were left behind. at the scene they could not be airlifted.

unless they could be. ided a volunteer dentist was going from. room to room just writing down. characteristics of everybody without an. ID weight height tattoos scars skin. marks and then periodically a list of. names and characteristics would be read. outside the hospital but that also. resulted in um a lot of pain because. families would think oh that sounds like. my daughter and they would run into the. room that their daughter was supposedly. in and it's not their. daughter and if their names were not.

called out or their descriptions were. not called out most likely they had. passed at 5:45 a.m. January 27th 2013. firefighters announced that there was no. possibility of Life inside the club. anymore if they went in it would be. purely to recover bodies not to rescue. Dr D was asked to put on a mask and go. inside and verify their belief he went. in to check for any vital signs of life. all he had was his mask flashlight and a. light Med bag just in case first few.

bodies he stumbled upon well actually. the first body that he stumbled upon he. quickly searched for a pulse nothing. then he shined the light at the victim's. face and it was. familiar it was an ex- colleague someone. that he used to work. with but he couldn't afford to get. emotional now he had to go deeper into. the club check for more signs of life it. was a doctor as well I believe they were. like a med staff he had to walk away. from his ex- colleague's body he said. when I got inside I saw bodies.

everywhere it was a heavy scene very sad. very shocking and in some places bodies. were piled up more than 5 ft. tall he saw the bodies in their last. moments attempting to survive he said he. saw one man with his head submerged in. the toilet another one with his body. facing the open freezer they were all. dead he walked out of the club took off. his mask and he announced no possibility. of Life in inside the. club Raphael looked at his dad are you. sure you're going to be okay yes yes go.

have fun Raphael was hesitant his dad. had suffered a stroke a few weeks back. and Raphael was the only one taking care. of him and he was about to go out of. town to hang out with friends I I can. just call Natalia and cancel the whole. trip no it's your birthday Raphael go. have fun Raphael had plans to meet. Natalia in Santa Maria to stay with. Natalia and another friend and go to the. kiss nightclub that night but he just. kept second guessing himself he grabbed. his suitcase headed out the door but. before he did he went to his dad's.

bathroom and wrote I love you on the. mirror he walked out now that weekend. Raphael Natalia and another friend of. theirs would be at kiss nightclub when. the fire broke out Natalya and Felipe. both lived in Santa Maria so their. families were there to help them and. look for them but Raphael's parents they. didn't live there they lived in a few. Towns over Natalia's dad remembers. getting that phone call his daughter had. been found she was in a hospital she was. in a coma but she was in a hospital she. was going to get operated on and they.

also found Raphael he was at the local. gymnasium Natalia's dad sat there with. his hands on his steering wheel for a. split second I mean he could easily go. to his daughter Natalia she'd be in a. coma but at least he could be near her. near the hospital just in case she wakes. up in case the doctor needs something he. could be there for his daughter but who. would be there for Raphael his parents. were getting on the first flight to. Santa Maria but I mean he was completely. alone right now so Natalia's dad entered. the address for the gymnasium and went.

to find Raphael he knew that's what what. Natalia would have wanted so he went to. the gym and sat with rafhael until his. parents came from the moment he walked. into that gym he did not leave not even. for a second until Raphael's family. could take over even when he got a. called that Natalia's situation his own. daughter's situation and condition was. getting worse he did not leave he sat. there next to Raphael's dead body body. staring out at the Sea of victims laying. on the gymnasium floor over 200 of them.

lined up in rows waiting for their. families there were hundreds of young. college students just there and every 3. minutes you would hear a scream and it. would be one of those earpiercing. screams that sounds like it's echoing. off the walls and making every bone in. your body vibrate it is guttural it is. Primal it is the deepest purest form of. pain and it would happen every 3 minutes. like clockwork the scream of a parent.

who had found who they had been looking. for their. child Ador is that you the door to. Grandma Olivera's house clicked open aor. aor honey is that you adore was her. grandson that was living with her and he. was supposed to be back last night but. he didn't make it home she remembered. distinctly he was busy working on his. laptop he's only 24 but he had this new. business he set up is it's it's like an. open bar business so he and a bunch of. bartenders would host big events or at.

clubs when there's big parties it was. doing really well he always had his head. buried in some papers and it's not as. fun of a job as someone might think it's. less parties more paperwork and sales. pitches late at night aor grabbed his. keys and jumped up where you going huh. where you going I'm going to kiss. nightclub to give them a price sheet for. an upcoming event but I'm going to be. back soon grandma like right back I'm. not just giving them a price sheet he. ran out the door and before closing it. he poked his head in and said be back in. no time Grandma he walked out he didn't.

come home last night and his grandma had. been worried sick about him so when the. door clicked open the next morning she. said is that you honey she rushed to the. front door and instead of her grandson. it was her daughter at's mom. Livia no Mom it's me her eyes were blood. shot. and his grandma just knew she felt like. an 18 whe truck had just slammed. straight into her. chest Livia's bosses so this is at's Mom.

Livia's bosses they kept calling her to. check up on her to see if there's. anything that she needs it had only been. a few hours since she found out that aor. had passed she found out pretty quickly. from the fire and things were still. developing the bosses you know had a son. Livia's age so they couldn't even. imagine what Livia was going through she. must be absolutely destroyed Livia told. them she wouldn't be coming to work for. a while but politely declined all their. other offers for help she hadn't seen. them or thought about them since you. know they're her bosses but after she. buried Ator she was walking around like.

a numb robot her body was responding. physically she felt pressure on her. chest her eyes were never dry constantly. wet with tears her face was dry from the. tears just getting dry on her cheeks but. she was just wandering around and then. she saw a pair of feet in front of her. she looked up and there was her boss and. his eyes were swollen and she knew that. look it was the look of a parent who had. just lost. everything after they checked in on.

Livia about Ator Livia's bosses got the. word that their son was also at that. nightclub and he also passed and the two. made eye contact and without saying a. single word they steep forward and they. just let go in each other's arms. sobbing there is a saying an ounce of. prevention is worth a pound of a cure. and this entire incident could have been. prevented experts state that there are. almost 20 factors that could have. prevented the fire from taking over 200.

lives the pyrot Technics were not indoor. safe the firework and Marcelo is the one. who brought and lit the firework the. lead vocalist for the band what's crazy. is that I mean obviously him purchasing. an outdoor firework to be used indoor is. a huge point of anger but another thing. that really confused and angered. netizens and the public was the fact. that he had a microphone right in front. of his face he could have taken 2. seconds to just scream out fire get out. but he didn't he didn't give everyone a. heads up and the authorities have no. idea how many lives have been killed. because of that one.

non-action he would argue that his band. mates and himself were so busy turning. off the electrical equipment for their. gear when the fire started because the. last thing they wanted was some sort of. electrical fire or explosion to add to. the mix and because they were so hyper. fixated on saving lives Marcelo did not. have time or the capacity to scream into. the mic that there was a fire most. people do not believe him they think. this was a way for him and the others to. get out of the club faster and easier. without a crowd surge he's at the far. deep corner of the club but he was one. of the first out on top of that some of.

the band mates even had some of their. instruments on. them I guess I didn't want to lose it in. the fire so we lights the firework he. escapes no alarm or announcement or is. made by anyone else in the club either. the firework ignites the soundproofing. foam on the ceiling of the club but it's. not it's just polyurethane there's also. fabric curtains on the stage that don't. help it just spreads the fire faster. they try putting it out with water that. doesn't help the fire extinguisher is. empty because all they used it for was.

for parties the club was dangerously. overc capacity cuz you know how every. Commercial Business you walk into a. restaurant bar they have like maximum. capacity signs yeah there's a few ways. officials calculate maximum capacity for. a commercial space usually it all just. comes down to fire code how quickly can. people get out in of a space in case of. an emergency they factor in a few little. details the amount of exit doors they do. not go through the kitchen or storage. room they have to be pure exit doors how. wide are the exit doors that's a whole.

thing okay so based on the business and. building the club was supposed to have. doors that were 14 1/2 ft wide but the. doors were only. 8.39 ft wide anyway it also factors in. amount of doors width of doors and the. amount of square footage of the place. additionally how many obstacles there. will be at any given point inside to the. closest exit door so rule of thumb. restaurants will have way lower. occupancy numbers than an open ballroom. that doesn't have a lot of chairs and. tables crowding the space and even if. you have a large venue if you don't have.

enough exit doors you're going to have a. lower occupancy rate the maximum. capacity of Kiss was 700 people experts. speculate there was anywhere between. 1,500 to 2,000 people there that night. in a 6,700 ft area there were no. emergency exits the regulations state. that there has to be at least two. emergency exits on opposite sides of the. building there were none everyone had to. leave through one door the same door. that they came in through but once they. got to that door there were illegally. installed metal barriers trapping them. in making it that much harder to.

evacuate beyond the metal barrier. security guards were stationed at the. doors and since the communication. amongst the employees was non-existent. which is a huge no no for a venue like. this everybody needs to be on the same. page the security guards were initially. preventing people from getting out. because they didn't know there was a. fire the lights had gone out there were. no adequate emergency exit signs no. sprinklers no smoke control equipment. the original architectural plan plan for. the building had a lot more windows and. a smoke exhauster ventilation system but. those were later taken out to cut down.

on cost another combination of other. incompetencies took place that factored. into it there were unauthorized. Renovations done inefficient inspections. from authorities the club's fire. prevention permit expired in August of. 2012 fraudulent signatures were placed. on official documentation to approve. Renovations that were not up to code and. those are just the things wrong with the. club other contributing factors were. like authorities did not isolate the. area around the club once the fire. started leading to chaos that led to. less efficient medical transportation.

for the victims not even protective gear. for firefighters to go into the building. civilians were going back into the. building to save loved ones leading to. their deaths I mean all of these things. delayed evacuation by a lot and it just. meant the difference between life and. death for a lot of. people and guilt is a funny thing. because there's no Universal threshold. for when someone should feel it some. people could do the most pous things and. not feel an ounce of guilt and some. people could do nothing and guilt will. eat away at their lives the parents of.

the victims all put the burden of guilt. on themselves maybe if they had asked. their kids to stay home that night or. asked them to come over early the next. morning maybe they wouldn't have been. there one mother blamed herself for. buying her daughter heels her daughter. theise had plans to attend that party. and she was trying on nice shoes and. dresses I don't think these are my style. she was staring at the heel she had. tried on she was always more of a. sneakers and flats kind of girl but her. mom was like you got to live a little. all you do is study here I'll buy you.

the heels and you can wear them the. niece went to kiss that night wearing a. new dress and the heels that her mom. bought her at the club she stepped. outside for a moment to call her mom. well how is it how's the party are you. having a good time yeah I'm having a. blast but these heels are killing me. they're hurting my feet and the two. would laugh about it but once the niece. passed her mom would always feel guilty. about buying her those shoes she said I. think about it a lot how difficult it. must have been for her to try and escape. a place like that with those heels on I.

should have never bought her. those the BYO family had two daughters. and they had both gone to kiss that. night Patricia their eldest daughter. Patricia's husband Gracie their youngest. daughter and her boyfriend the four of. them had gone to the club when the fire. broke out the next morning they got the. call they were in the car rushing as. fast as they could to try and find their. daughters and on the way there Mr brro. turned to his wife and said my love. My Hope Is that the girls are safe and. they're just asleep at home but if the.

worst has happened we have no choice but. to join them yes the parents went to the. nightclub and nothing all seven. hospitals nothing they went to the gym. and there were the two deceased bodies. of their daughters but also their two. partners were found dead as. well The Rescuer is in charge of. recovering the victim's bodies from the. club and transporting them to the gym. one of them said I still feel it in my. arms I still feel the difference in the.

weights of the bodies that I carried. there were heavier ones and there were. lighter ones and at first we were all. being so careful with the bodies but. just never stopped coming there was just. another one and then another one and it. was just body after body and I just. wanted to get away from there and I. couldn't stand the tragedy anymore so we. just started. rushing even at the gym there's a photo. of the president there and along with. other politicians they had gone to the. gym before any of the parents or family. members were allowed in and it's alleged. that not all but some of them were being. very disrespectful not to the bodies but.

they were treating this as a photo op as. a press tour of look just look at how. sad I look while I look at this tragedy. that has taken place in our. country the volunteers were completely. outraged there's even a picture again. not insinuating that the president did a. photo shoot there or what her intentions. were but there is a photo where the. president is holding whom we can assume. as a victim's mother and I guess it's. supposed to to look comforting like. she's one with the people but one of the. moms is just staring the camera down in.

the back allegedly likely because she. wasn't allowed into the gym until the. politicians were done now they're like. making it a whole thing of trying to. look good I mean it's it's the. presumption of that photo eventually the. parents entered the gym where they would. find hundreds of bodies neatly lay down. on the floor and it was a lot I mean a. lot of lives were lost and a lot of. lives were intertwined because it's a. it's a venue people went with their. friends and their family so in the. process of trying to find their child a. lot of families would find two three of.

their children's best. friends or some parents they would see. their son-in-law or their daughter's. boyfriends laying on the other side of. the gym opposite the significant others. it was it was a lot and because of that. a lot of the parents decided to have a. funeral right there a collective funeral. for all the friends and family to be. buried together over a 100 coffins were. lined up in the gym and there's very. well wellknown photo from one of the. funerals it's of a woman named Yasmine. crying on top of her boyfriend's coffin. it was yasmin's birthday and she just.

remembered she wanted to look really. good for Lucas so she had picked out. this white dress and gold strappy heel. she painted her nails red when the fire. broke out Lucas had gone to the restroom. and Yasmin was near the front door. someone yanked her out of the club and. she was fighting them kicking screaming. I have to go back Lucas is in there I. have to go back but it was too late. Lucas was gone and the picture of her. crying over the casket would be seen all. over the world and side note a magazine.

published this picture on their front. page and there was a huge controversy. because people thought it was staged. they thought the magazine had hired a. model and got a casket prop to take this. shot because why would they say that. she's wearing like this um Fedora and. the angle of the photo it looks very. almost cinematic in a way I think people. wanted it to be staged because I think. once you realize it's a very real. photo it just it feels a lot heavier to.

look at that photo outside of the club. there were some really bad people also. involved in this case the cost of. coffins caskets and flowers skyrocketed. to the point where it was speculated. that after the tragedy people went. around buying up all the coffins and. caskets so that they could turn around. and sell it for four times the price to. The Grieving parents it was really gross. other people resorted to victim blaming. one pastor at a victim's funeral. literally went up on stage and said let. this death be an example for all of you. children who disobey your parents if.

austo were at church he would not be. dead right. now some netizens even told the parents. it's their fault for raising children. that would go to nightclubs that would. go clubbing there were other neens that. I don't know if they were necessarily. trying to be disrespectful but there. were a lot of theories going around that. were connecting this incident to other. mass mass mass tragedies in history that. I don't even feel comfortable touching. upon cuz it's just not a connection I. think should have been made other. netizens were just speculating if.

anybody foreshadowed this so there were. some party goers who had tweeted things. like let's set kiss on fire tonight. because you know they're just saying. like let's have fun the kiss owner had. said he wants to take the Club. International people thought he was. foreshadowing it there was a nzen rumor. going around that we have no idea if. this is true that one of the last songs. played was Die Young by Kesha cuz the. lyrics I I hear your heartbeat to the. beat of the drums what a shame you came. here with someone so while you're here. in my arms let's make the most of the.

night like we're going to die young take. my hand I'll show you the Wild Side like. it's the last night of our Lives we'll. keep dancing until we. die but I thought it was the band that. was playing yeah so they were doing like. cover songs and interchanging and stuff. just to clarify again though we don't. know if the song was played now in the. end four people would be tried for what. happened that night I kiss the two. owners of the club Kiko Spore and Maro. Hoffman the band lead vocalist would. also be tried the one that ignited the.

firework Marcelo and the band producer. that also helped light the firework. luchano he would be tried all four were. indicted for murder and all four of them. came locked and loaded with just excuse. after excuse they were blaming everybody. the club Owners are blaming the. authorities like well you didn't do your. inspections correctly enough then. because that's your job that's not my. job to go to the law that's why you're. an. inspector Marcel was blaming the. firework company he was like well I just. asked him for the firework but he didn't. give me the original box it came in if I.

had read the box and said don't light it. inside then I probably would have let it. inside the owners also resorted to. blaming Marcelo and they're like well we. don't use priot Technics at our club. like we don't do any of that but that. was a lie because there's lots of. pictures and videos of pyrotechnics. being used at the club I mean like most. clubs use it they put the giant. sparklers in the champagne tubes and. they bring them to the VIP tables he's. like no we never do that but they did. they did use them maybe not to that. scale that Marcelo did but they did side. note Kiko the owner of the club is a.

character he did interviews during all. of this where he blamed the Architects. safety inspectors basically everyone but. himself he even blamed the whole country. and said it was a succession of heirs. made by the whole country yeah he also. spent a good amount of time in the. interview crying about he had how he had. trouble sleeping in jail and how he had. to spend his birthday in jail and that. was rough for him he also tried to lie. and said the lights never turned off in. the club even though there is so much. evidence to argue otherwise he's like. yeah know the lights were always on so. they could have escaped if they really. wanted to are they mo not the most hated.

people yeah in Brazil like yeah it it. was rough it was rough the police. ambulances the firefighters they were. all under Fire um more so the. firefighters but I would say the other. groups they got a lot of heat because. they didn't have a disaster plan in that. City it was just chaos they didn't rope. off the perimeter they didn't do. anything the ambulances were so. disorganized they wasted so much time. they also started transporting dead. bodies to hospitals and I think in any.

other situation that's such a human. thing to do and we can see why they did. it because they don't want to believe. these people are dead but the doctors. told them they're dead and there are. victims that needed. help there is a man this picture is. pretty famous in association with this. case there's a picture of a man running. around with a limp body in his arms he. was just looking for any vehicle to send. this man into the hospital there were. none but he did not let this man out of. his arms until he was certain that he. was going to get to a hospital but even.

then it was too late by the time he got. there he had died and the victim's. sister Bruna had called Ezekiel who's. the bodybuilder and she cried and said. thank you for trying thank you for. trying to save my brother furthermore. there was a lot of discourse about the. firefighters at the scene during the. rescue efforts the firefighters went in. depth about their rescue efforts how it. was so tough they were underst staffed. how they had not not enough oxygen tanks. to go in and each oxygen tank only had. 10 minutes of oxygen in there so once. they went into the club they couldn't.

even see they said the flashlights would. be shining and they can't see like an. arms length away from their face because. the smoke is so thick they said they. were just trying so hard they would stay. in there even after their oxygen ran out. to risk it to save these people to be. there for everyone because that's what. firefighters do they're hosing it down. they're axing Down the Walls they were. desperate doing whatever they could. these statements would later become a. huge controversy because the surviving. victims one of them giavanni remember he. saved his brother yeah he said no none.

of the firefighters were actually going. inside to rescue people they were all. just standing near the door maybe they. were inside the club but like right next. to the door grabbing bodies from the. civilians who were inside saving people. without any. gear javanni said they would just stand. at the door and a civilian would run out. from inside the club holding someone and. they would take that person from the. civilian rescuer and let them run back. inside the club jaavan stated that he. even asked for oxygen tank from the. firefighter so that they could run back. in and stay in there longer and they. refused to give it to him and again we. don't know which side is true but I just.

don't know why a Survivor would have any. incentive to lie about something like. this and on top of that the firefighters. would even though they refuted all these. claims they would later be tried in. military court but they it usually. military court for situations like this. is a slap on the. wrist but in the end all four the two. owners the lead vocalist and the band. producer they all got around $18 22. years in prison that's it oh you're. about to be so upset but it was. immediately.

overturned allegedly the judge kept. having lunches with the jury I don't. know why okay no one knows why the judge. would state that they just do that they. just have lunch with the jurors but they. don't talk about the case they said that. there were guards present and they were. certain they never talked about the case. but the defense attorneys were like. that's tampering with the jury so. absolutely not it was overturned and. since then there has never been another. trial they're just. free what nothing happened to them yeah.

it it's speculated that maybe the club. Owners had ties to the government or. something because there's just no way. this makes sense it was one of the. biggest cases in Brazil like all of. Brazil was hurting I just don't see why. it. doesn't yeah it doesn't make sense. there's just a lot of odd connections. the main prosecutor this is way before. the fire had been tasked with. investigating the club for pollution and. permitting like violating permits he. ends up retiring in the middle of these. investigations his son ends up becoming.

the lawyer that represents the club. during the permitting. investigations so the sun switch side. from investigating to defending or the. prosecutor could against speculation be. friendly with the club and had plans to. not really do anything about the. breaking of the violations and then now. that he's retired the son knows The. Insider details allegedly if the dad. just tells him this is what the. prosecutors know and can rep them in a. way that's more beneficial is I don't. know a speculation but there's just a. lot of odd coincidences oh yeah okay.

side note the parents are also going to. get sued for defamation by the. prosecutors because the the parents were. coming out saying I think that this is. like bribery and Corruption there's just. no way yeah they were getting sued by. the prosecutors so the public they. called this the second tragedy of Kiss. because it is in response to the public. the prosecutor stated that they would. stop suing the parents but the parents. said no keep suing us prove to us that. we're Liars then prove it prove it then. the judge stepped in and tried to close. the case by quote forgiving the parents.

of the victims without even doing a. proper investigation the parents didn't. want that either what was there to. forgive them for they wanted a full. investigation into the truth because. they know that they're not lying so. everyone else can try to prove it that. didn't go anywhere though because the. justice system is confusing and not. great anywhere this is not just Brazil. by the way just anywhere because before. anyone even judges Brazil we had a. situation in Rhode Island in the United. States very similar where a club was lit. on fire from pyrot Technics a lot of.

lives were lost now with that there were. massive protests all over Brazil with. signs that read where were you on. January 27th. 2013 and people tried to hold protest. marches but in the end nothing really. came of it there is still no. justice the land that the club has been. sitting on and the club itself has been. given to the parents of the victims they. are going to put up a memorial there to. remind everyone that drives past like.

this is what happens we cannot let this. happen again it does seem some changes. are being made there are some. regulations that are being enforced to. make Santa Maria safer stricter. standards are being enforced for. commercial businesses with large fines. if protocol is broken but it's just been. yeah I don't really have the words. recently abandoned Dubai was Under Fire. because they were performing on stage. they lit up a firework and they shouted. hello kiss. nightclub no yeah they apologized on.

Instagram and they moved. on but for a lot of parents and. families they can't move on because it. feels like time has stopped January 27th. of. 2013 and that is the story of the kiss. nightclub fire what are your thoughts. let me know please stay safe and I will. will see you guys on Wednesday for the. next episode bye.