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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TL;DR: An absolute moron fired some flares indoor, toward a highly-flammable ceiling, got 100 of his relatives killed in the ensuing fire.

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoever it was may be a moron, but fire code is designed to protect us from morons. A moron with a flare gun should not be able to accidently murder 100 people. That's a failure on many levels.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. It's likely that insufficient fire code made this much worse, given what the article says.

Civil defense officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall’s exterior as decorated with a highly flammable type of “sandwich panel” cladding that is illegal in the country.

There's probably going to be a fire if someone fire flares indoor. But following the fire code can go a long way toward saving time, avoiding deaths. Multiple things went wrong to get such a disaster.