Parents rammed cars into burning day care - Mexico

[RamboLiberal]

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (CNN) -- Parents of the children trapped in a burning Mexican day care center rammed their vehicles into the building to try to free the trapped children, witnesses told CNN.

At least 38 children died when flames engulfed the building on Friday. Dozens more are in hospitals in Mexico and the United States.

Neighbors described parents arriving at the day care center completely desperate, seeing it engulfed in flames and knowing there was no way to get the children out, CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reported from the scene. They say they could hear the cries of the children and the screams of their parents.

The building had two doors, but one was padlocked shut, officials said. Windows were too high for the children to reach.

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As of Saturday night, at least 23 children remained hospitalized, 15 of them in critical condition, Sonora spokesman Daniel Duran told CNN. Another 10 children had been transported to other hospitals: eight to Guadalajara, one to Ciudad Obregon, and two to Sacramento, California.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/07/mexico.day.care.fire/index.html

What a tragedy and a crime!

[Adelante]

1. Just horrific nt

[Blue Diadem]

2. Two doors? One of them padlocked?

:grr:

Those poor children and their parents. RIP little ones. Once again, the adults taking care of you, who were supposed to protect you, failed miserably.

[KittyWampus]

3. This is why Regulations can be a good thing. Yes, it can go overboard. What was the fire in NY?

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

Some of the "women" who jumped to their deaths were 13.

[Fumesucker]

7. Not just Triangle Shirtwaist..

It happened in 1991 in North Carolina too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire

The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial disaster that took place at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA on September 3, 1991, after a failure in a faulty modification to a hydraulic line. Twenty-five people were killed and 54 injured in the fire as they were trapped behind locked fire doors. Due to a lack of inspectors, the plant had never received a safety inspection in 11 years of operation,<1> and it is thought that a single inspection would have easily prevented the incident.<2>

A full federal investigation was launched, which resulted in the owner receiving a 20-year prison sentence, and the company received the highest fines ever handed out in the history of North Carolina.<3> The investigation also highlighted failings in the authoritative enforcement of existing safety regulations, and resulted in a number of worker safety laws being passed. Accusations of racism were leveled at both the fire service and the city of Hamlet in the aftermath of the fire. The latter dispute, concerning a memorial service organized by the city, resulted in two separate, near-identical monuments being erected. The plant was never reopened.

[Chemisse]

4. That is just heartbreaking.

[malaise]

5. This is too sad

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[BlooInBloo]

6. Gawd how terrible for all of them.