Archive for September 21st, 2007

UDEC: LIGHTING THE WAY TO SAFETY
Historical Moment: Emergency Light Fixtures and the 2004 Bangladesh Factory Stampede
A fire alarm started a stampede that killed six women in a Bangladeshi clothing factory on May 3, 2004.
The women were crushed to death when hundreds of people rushed for the exits during the fire alarm. The fire, caused […]

UDEC: LIGHTING THE WAY TO SAFETY
Historical Moment: The 2004 República Cromagnon Fire
Argentines awoke on New Year’s Eve to scenes of horror on television: Pictures flashed of dazed, sobbing survivors from a nightclub fire, blackened by soot, outside the club or in hospitals. Others were frantically searching for loved ones, and  fainting, wailing  parents guarded charred bodies lined up outside on […]