38 die in mental hospital fire outside Moscow

[tfcrew]

-Some reports say 42 dead-.

MOSCOW (AP) — The patients of the small psychiatric hospital in a Russian village were asleep or under sedation as the clock neared 2 a.m. The windows were barred and the nearest firefighters were miles away, with some impeded by rough roads and others not able to cross a nearby canal.
When a blaze broke out and spread through the wooden rafters, all of this made for a prescription for tragedy: 38 people died and only three escaped.

http://news.yahoo.com/38-die-mental-hospital-fire-outside-moscow-051615611.html

[GQBlues]

This is the 2nd time this happen in less than a year. I thought they investigated the first case that killed a similar number of people in a similar type institution. One would think a precedent case may have caused to improve other existing similar institutions for precautionary measures.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/13/222114774/37-killed-in-fire-at-russian-psychiatric-hospital

[mendeleyev]

One would think a precedent case may have caused to improve other existing similar institutions for precautionary measures.

Certainly a reasonable assumption but it seems that every year this scenario is repeated.