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Posted: 13 July 2026 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
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Hardly local news, but stories like this always get to me.

Dead is dead, but burning is a truly horrible way to get there.

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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 13 July 2026 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
The thing I find frightening is how quickly the smoke spreads and makes it hard to see.  And I know we are all trained time and again with fire drills, but when that adrenaline starts going, people become George Costanza.  

I read some articles on this fire, and it lists some other fires in Thailand from the past few years and when will people stop setting off pyrotechnics inside???
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 13 July 2026 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Footage from the front exterior of the club is terrifying.   Fire was blasting out out of a door or window opening like a jet engine.
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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 14 July 2026 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Horrifying footage on the news.

My father, who was a firefighter in NYC for nearly 30 years,
would tell us kids cautionary tales of people who panicked
during a fire or simply fell back on rote memory, piling up
inside a doorway instead of tossing a chair through a ground-
level bay window (that sort of thing). It instilled
situational awareness into my siblings and me early on.
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 14 July 2026 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
It's always a good thing to plan an escape route! Every upper level bedroom in my home thankfully has a way out of the windows that would not involve a big plummet to the ground. SCARY!
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Posted: 14 July 2026 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
I realized not long after moving into this house 20+ years ago that there is no actual exit from the bedroom end short of climbing off the balcony in the master bedroom.

I’ve contemplated having one of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the hallway turned into a door, but typical of me I’ve done nothing about it.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 14 July 2026 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
How are you fixed for fire alarms, JB?
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Posted: 14 July 2026 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
House is full of them!

Somewhat annoying every time I burn the toast!

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