Hospital fire kills 42 in Moscow, Russian media reports

[Roon]

Hospital fire kills 42 in Moscow, Russian media reports
Breaking on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[Lenore]

1. So much for that other plutonium poisoned guy

Sheesh, what they won't do to get rid of evidence. I don't know if I am being sarcastic or not.

[LisaL]

7. It gets worse. The fire looks like arson. The exits were

locked and the women could not get out.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/09/moscow.fire.ap/index.html

[nodehopper]

12. how is this related to the other plutonium guy?

or do you mean as a media distraction?

[krispos42]

2. Got a story link

Moscow hospital fire 'kills 42'

A fire at a Moscow drug rehabilitation hospital has killed at least 42 people and injured two more, reports say.
The blaze broke out at the 17th hospital, in the south-west of Moscow, at 0140 on Saturday (2240 GMT Friday), the Itar-Tass agency said.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6163835.stm

[Captain Hilts]

3. I lived in Moscow for a year and NEVER saw/heard a firetruck heading to a fire. nt

[NYC]

4. Do they just let the fires burn?

Do you have any idea why?

[Captain Hilts]

5. I asked people. Their responses to fires were not prompt. "Fire prevention Month"...

was comprised of sidewalk billboards with photographs of charred bodies.

But, really, they just didn't respond as they do in most parts of the USofA. And I lived near Leninsky Prospect, a major boulevard you'd think fire trucks would have used.

There was a fire in a building near a friend of mine's apt. and he said it burned for quite a while.

[brentspeak]

6. They are an extremely dysfunctional people

Thousands of children are homeless on the streets of Moscow and other major Russian cities, but the Russian people look the other way when they walk by.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Well, they've been in a state of economic collapse.

Times are tough. There were roving packs of wild dogs, etc.

[nodehopper]

11. everyone is dysfunctional

Americans look the other way when amputee vets beg at intersections.

[NYC]

9. That's scary.

I had assumed fire departments everywhere reacted as quickly as they could.

[nodehopper]

10. no, they do, in fact, respond to fires

Perhaps the poster above just didn't wasn't aware of it, or wasn't in the vicinity of fires during his/her time there.

[Captain Hilts]

13. I didn't say they didn't respond to fires. I said they were not prompt.

You did not see fire engines charging up/down Leninsky Prospect as you do say, Wisconsin Ave. in DC. You just didn't.

There were not nearly as many fire stations either.