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I probably have a virus by now

The fire started about 11:08 PM, Thursday, February 20, 2003, just seconds into headlining band Great White's first song. This fire was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history, killing 100 people and injuring more than 200. Ninety-six perished on the night of the fire, and four died later from their injuries at local hospitals.

The fire, from its inception, was caught on videotape by cameraman Brian Butler for WPRI-TV of Providence, and the beginning of the tape was released to national news.

Aftermath photo

An investigation of the fire by a Rhode Island state grand jury was started by then-Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch on February 26, 2003. On December 9, 2003, the grand jury announced indictments against Station owners Jeffrey and Michael Derderian and Great White road manager Daniel M. Biechele.

Longer video found on YouTube

Grand jury investigation

The three suspects were each charged with 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter with criminal negligence and 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in violation of a misdemeanor.

Jeff Derdian mugshot

Micheal Derdian mugshot

Daniel Biechele mugshot

Jeffrey and Micahel Derderian changed their pleas from "not guilty" to "no contest," thereby avoiding a trial. Michael Derderian received 15 years in prison, with four to serve and 11 years suspended, plus three years probation. Jeffrey Derderian received a 10-year suspended sentence, three years probation, and 500 hours of community service. Daniel Biechele pleaded guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison.

The cause of the fire was pyrotechnics that ignited flammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. The fire engulfed the area quickly and it took a few minutes before people noticed the nightclub caught fire. People got trapped as the massive crowd pushed through exits leading to death caused by smoke insulation and crowd crushing.

The Station Memorial Park was built to commemorate those who died in the fire.

(First effort post, sorry if it is shitty)

try to dodge or the fire will burn you completely...

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Colorized raw footage (normal playback speed)

Photograph of Thich Quang Duc taken by Malcolm Browne

Thich Quang Duc was born in 1897 in Hoi Khanh, a village located in central Vietnam, Khanh Hoa province. Fragmentary information on his life is known only from Buddhist literature. Coming from a large family, he had six siblings. He was born as Lam Van Tuc (Lâm Văn Tức in Vietnamese). He entered a Mahayana Buddhist monastery when he was seven. He became a monk at the age of twenty under the name Thich Quang Duc. In 1932, he was appointed an inspector and was over time responsible for the building of 14 temples. In 1934, he moved to southern Vietnam and became a teacher. He also spent two years in Cambodia. After that, he began to oversee the construction of further temples. In total, he was responsible for 31 new temples. In 1943, he moved to Saigon where he worked as the chairman of a panel on ceremonial rites. In the following years, he became one of the leading spiritual figures of Vietnamese Buddhism.

Thick Quang Duc being doused in gasoline by another monk

In the beginning of the 1960s, religious tension in South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) had escalated. A predominantly Buddhist country was ruled by the authoritative and Christian president Ngo Dinh Diem (Ngô Đình Diệm in Vietnamese). Rampant corruption, favouring Roman Catholics for public service, and disregard of the president for Buddhist traditions had sparked street clashes in Saigon, leaving nine protesters dead after the violent crackdown in May 1963. The Buddhist reaction took the form of a shocking protest that built on an older tradition, cases of self-immolation having been previously recorded in Vietnam and also in China. On 10 June 1963, American journalists in Saigon were notified that something unspecified would happen in front of the Embassy of Cambodia the next day. The Buddhists probably chose the place because of the then tense relations between Cambodia and South Vietnam. Since the Buddhists had been protesting against the ruling regime for a long time already, only several journalists arrived, including The New York Times correspondent David Halberstam and the Associated Press photographer Malcolm W. Browne.

Thic Quang Duc Self-immolation

According to Halberstam, several hundred Buddhist monks, who left the main Saigon pagoda around 10 a.m. on 11 June 1963, marched into the busy junction. A blue Austin Westminster sedan led the March. At the junction, Thich Quang Duc got out of the car accompanied by two monks. One of them laid a cushion on the street and Duc sat down on it in the lotus position. The other took a five-gallon petrol can out of the boot and poured the petrol over Duc. Duc then recited a short mantra used by Buddhists to calm their mind. Then he struck a match and set himself on fire. He burst into flames immediately. The on-looking crowd chanted slogans, some cried, some bowed to the burning monk. After ten minutes, the lifeless body fell to the ground. When the flames went out, one of the monks repeated into a microphone again and again, first in Vietnamese and then in English: “A Buddhist priest burns himself to death. A Buddhist priest becomes a martyr.” The monks carried Duc's remains away to bury them. According to tradition, the heart remained intact after the cremation and was venerated as a relic. Also because of this, Duc has been revered by Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhists as bodhisattva, someone who has achieved enlightenment (many other Buddhists reject his act as incompatible with the teachings of Buddha).

Malcolm Browne's photograph in color

Duc stressed in a farewell letter that he decided to immolate himself in order to press President Diem to establish religious tolerance. He wrote that self-immolation is a sacrifice for Buddhism. The regime leadership proclaimed that the event was a conspiracy of Cambodia and local communists. At the end of June 1963, the government announced that Duc had been drugged before his self-immolation. The First Lady also provoked outrage when she cynically wrote in a letter to The New York Times that she “would clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show.” Religious tension did not defuse in the following weeks, and three more monks immolated themselves in August 1963. Eventually, president Diem, who gradually lost the support of the United States, was overthrown and killed on 2 November 1963.

Duc's protest drew a strong response not only in South Vietnam but also in other countries, thanks to the American journalists. A picture of the burning monk taken by Brown won the 1963 World Press Photo of the Year award, and Brown himself won a Pulitzer prize in 1964. Self-immolation in South Vietnam, interpreted as a part of the struggle against American imperialism, was often covered by the official media in communist countries. Paradoxically, this form of political protest became an inspiration for a number of people in the Soviet bloc. At present, there is a street named after Duc in the Vietnamese capital of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). A monumental memorial has been erected not far from the place where he performed his radical protest

Sources:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/thich-quang-duc-burning-monk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

https://time.com/3791176/malcolm-browne-the-story-behind-the-burning-monk/

https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-thich-quang-ducs-self-immolation

https://www.janpalach.cz/en/default/zive-pochodne/duc#:~:text=At%20the%20end%20of%20June,drugged%20before%20his%20self%2Dimmolation.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations

https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/subres.html

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On January 18, 2019, in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, the uncontrolled expulsion of gasoline was recorded at kilometer 226 of the pipeline that runs from the Veracruz port of Tuxpan to the city of Tula.

It was caused by the rudimentary installation of a clandestine tap in the 14 inch diameter pipeline with the purpose of illegally extracting the fuel. Due to the strong pressure of the hydrocarbon and the lack of technical knowledge in the manipulation of these pipes, it quickly got out of control and the liquid began to gush out massively, rising several meters.

People began to approach in the hope of collecting the fuel to sell it later, even though they knew that they were not only committing a crime but were exposing themselves to the risk of death.

For reasons that remain unknown, there was a spark and consequent explosion that killed 137 people, many of them did not die on the spot but days later due to their injuries, there were only 8 survivors. One accepted theory is that the inferno fire was caused by looters who were smoking while stealing gasoline.

The Mexican authorities tried to warn the inhabitants of nearby villages of the danger, but the villagers did not listen and even went with their children to steal gasoline, sometimes making the children carry buckets of water to take some of the gasoline.

Because they were outnumbered, the authorities for fear of being attacked by the villagers simply allowed them to take what they wanted.

this man was burned alive and an idiot woman threw a chair at him, what an idiot the person who threw the chair at him I swear I'm really annoyed with that woman

Florencio Varela, Argentina

December 13, 2019

A woman was arrested today in the Buenos Aires district of Florencio Varela, accused of having murdered her ex-husband on Monday by setting him on fire inside his truck in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas in front of her two children, police sources reported.

The episode was filmed by a security camera located in a house on 2370 Osvaldo Cruz Street, in Barracas, where it is observed that the man was incinerated inside his Toyota Hilux truck, from which his two small children had just gotten out of the car. back seat.

According to investigators, the detained woman was identified by the Police as Liliana Rosa Pinto, who was accused of the murder of her ex-husband Gustavo Gaitán, as well as the burn injuries suffered by a 17-year-old neighbor, who was apparently in the passenger seat and tried to rescue the victim from the flames.

Police sources assured that the incident began around 11 p.m. last Monday, when a man aboard a white Hilux truck parked next to the curb on 2370 Osvaldo Cruz Street and two children immediately got out of the back seat, who turned out to be their children.

As seen in the images from the security camera of a home, as soon as the two children got out of the truck, several people approached and began to take things out of the box of the vehicle, while a woman approaches the window on the side of the vehicle. driver.

After having a brief conversation, the woman threw something at the man who was driving and a fire started, followed by an explosion inside the passenger compartment, before the eyes of the two children and the other people surrounding the truck.

Police sources assured that a neighbor tried to rescue the driver of the truck and suffered first and second degree burns.

The firefighters who arrived at the scene a few minutes later managed to put out the flames and the man was transferred with burns to 100 percent of his body in a SAME ambulance to the Argerich hospital, where he lay in agony for two days until he died.

Meanwhile, the neighbor who suffered burns was also taken to the Penna hospital, where he had to be intubated because the heat of the fire affected his respiratory tract, sources said.

Investigators were able to determine based on witness accounts that the woman who started the fire was the deceased's ex-wife and that she had fled the scene after the incident.

With the data obtained, the Criminal and Correctional Court 19 of Buenos Aires ordered the intervention of four telephone lines and the search of two homes, one of them on Rawson Street in Gobernador Julio Acosta, in the town of Florencio Varela, where she was detained. the suspect.

Investigators are now trying to determine the reasons why the woman attacked her ex-partner.

https://www.lacapital.com.ar/le-prendio-fuego-y-mato-su-exmarido-dentro-una-camioneta-n2549900.html

Man I don't know if this was suicide or burning, I didn't know if anyone had posted this before me

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