Yep--the death toll is up to 95 now.
The incident happened when it was still early evening here so I was watching it on MSNBC when they didn't even know how many fatalities there were yet.
Of course there's going to be conflicting reports on whether or not they had permission to use pyros. A rep for the band says yes, a rep for the club says no...common sense says that one shouldn't be playing with fire indoors anyway, and unfortunately the curtain caught on fire and the place was ablaze in a matter of 3 minutes.
I thought it was ironic how the WPRI guy was doing a story on club/bar safety in response to the Chicago E2 incident. It's eerie watching what happened on that video...people were just standing there, not realizing that everything catching fire was *NOT* part of the show.
My prayers go out to all the people involved in this tragedy.
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