Nightclub fire in Romania

The Wikipedia article has a few more details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectiv_nightclub_fire
Interesting entry but too bad it blamed the victims as do often is done in tragedies of this sort. They didn't use the often misused "panic", bout instead said " stampede " which by its link suggests "A stampede is uncontrolled concerted running as an act of mass impulse among herd animals or a crowd of people in which the herd (or crowd) collectively begins running, often in an attempt to escape a perceived threat." Perceived threat? The fact is these people, like at the station and many other large loss of life fires, wanted to get out and away from the hazard. Beware of anyone who blames the victims by claiming panic, implying irrational and antisocial behavior. It just ain't so. People try to get out and almost always act altruistically in these situations (unlike portrayed in fictional movies). Forensic work has shown this time after time.

Nature is sometimes to blame, like tornadoes and earthquakes, but most often someone's poor choices or miscalculations or negligence, too often with greed mixed in, are often to blame.
 

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