Death toll from Bangkok bar fire rises to 30 as police probe safety lapses
BBC World →Survivors and first reporters reported doors being locked and the lack of signage marking emergency exits.
THIRTEEN BODIES IN A SINGLE ROOM - This Number Perish in a New York Tenement House Fire - Seven Were Injured - Flames Swept Up the Elevator Shaft and Stairways and There Was No Chance For Tenants to Escape
New York, Nov. 25.—Thirteen are dead and seven were injured in a fire that swept the five-story tenement on Second avenue early this morning. The fire started in a liquor store, first floor and shot up through an air shaft and stairways and trapped all the families in the upper part of the building. Firemen were unable to reach the victims and they were overcome by smoke and burned to death. Thirteen bodies were found in one room on the top floor where they had fallen in an attempt to reach the fire escape. Seven bodies were of children and the other six were adults. The firemen said that if the door to the room had been closed, none would have suffered. All the dead are Italians.
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