Video: what you need to know about nightclub fire safety

What can we learn from nightclub fire tragedies, including The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003, and the January 27, 2013, fire in Sana Maria, Brazil? Robert Solomon, NFPA's division manager of Building & Life Safety Codes, says that in addition to the adoption, implementation and enforcement of fire and life safety codes, it's vitally important that consumers learn how to protect themselves when they visit nightclubs and other public assembly venues.

Learn more at www.nfpa.org/nightclub

Comments

[John Clenaghan]

Hi Robert
I appreciate all you state, however, All people who resort to clubs or other places of public entertainment expect and believe that they are in a safe environment and that the Persons who are running or organising this venue have checked that the property and its safety issues are in fact in compliance with the fire law and should have no reason to doubt they are safe.
What happened? I have some informed judgement or what may have been wrong before and at the time.
To ask persons resorting to have a look about and view what is wrong (normally these clubs in all pats of the world are in semi darkness). should we train those persons NO, educate them YES, ensure contraventions are dealt with YES.
It is to the enforcing authorities that we should be looking to ensure they are checking the fire safety measures - and ensure compliance and that the general public are as safe as possible.