TonyMitchell Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4742958/Chaos-Barcelona-festival-huge-fire-breaks-out.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior8 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 https://youtu.be/JZJz0InuuGk The Torygraph is saying 'The cause of the fire remains unclear, although it is believed that it could have been triggered by a firework display which was part of the show. It quotes another source: "The fire brigade's initial hypothesis is that there was an overheating of the material used in the construction of the stage during the presentation of a pyrotechnic spectacle," Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Moderation: I merged the two topics on the same subject - P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musht Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 longer version, 15 mins, starts with very small fire upper SL Scariest thing is peoples reaction or lack, rather than leave sharpish, they stand and film a clearly out of control fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImagineerTom Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Lots of festivals have fire / fire sculpture elements to them (often looking completely out of control) so a significant chunk of the punters will have thought it was part of the festival and/or not been as unfamiliar with watching giant temporary sculptures burning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrV Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 It seemed to take an inordinately long time before they stopped the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intyra Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 It's rather impressive that the PA manages to stay in the air despite being very much on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigclive Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I wonder if the set was ignited by pyro, an electrical fault, a sharpy-style beam at close range or something else. People never leave when they see a fire. They just watch it and now they film it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonemorf Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/if-the-titanic-sank-today1.jpgIf the Titanic sunk today........... Its a strange mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Courtesy of http://mashable.com/2009/06/20/in-case-of-fire/#XSDrhKyccSqm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roderick Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Anybody with real on-site information about what caused the fire?And why the decorations weren't fire retardant? Don't need any speculation, some based on incorrect images shown in the Mirror... Very glad to see they had good emergency plans in place and all left the site uninjured! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 You know there's already a topic on this?http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=69597&pid=553356&st=0entry553356 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seano Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 People never leave when they see a fire. They just watch it and now they film it too. This. It's a phenomenon you can see clearly in footage of the Bradford City Stadium disaster back in 1985* - well before the advent of smartphones and Twitter, and in a setting with absolutely no expectation that the fire might be somehow 'part of the show'. (* - Available on youtube I think - if you have the stomach to watch it. I've seen it before and don't need to see it again, so I'm not going to look for it now or post a link. The 'clicky' bit above is a link to the Wikipedia article about the fire.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Unite Barcelona, organizers of Tomorrowland Barcelona , has attributed to a technical problem the fire at the scene of the event in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) that on Saturday forced to evict more than 22,000 people. In a statement on Sunday, they explained that the authorities are carrying out an investigation with them to clarify the facts and say they do not know that any injuries have occurred, something that has already confirmed Civil Protection of the Generalitat. Unite Barcelona celebrates the rapid evacuation of the concentrates in the park of Can Zam of the locality and asks that they are put in contact with them for any incidence that could have happened. According to reports, the fire occurred when the podium stage was set and the event was canceled . Firemen (which google translate has down as "bombers"?!?) of the Generalitat inspects during the morning the remains of the stage next to technicians of the company that made the assembly of the structure and remove the most unstable parts to be able to carry out the investigation on the origin of the fire, has informed the body in a release.So the investigation has only just started. Good they had pre arranged evacuation notices for video screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 In the Glasgow night club fire the punters played with the dripping fire from the plastic in the roof -and people filmed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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