Service door of Crans-Montana bar where 40 died in fire was locked from inside, owner says

I don't read much French, but the thought of saving cash over people makes me want to vomit.

https://www.24heures.ch/crans-montana-jai-dit-a-jacques-moretti-de-faire-gaffe-933348885550

Run this through your favourite translator. Basically it looks like it's going to be aggrivated homicide with intentional dereliction.

You're god damn right!

Any venue or building rated for say, to pick a random number, more than 20 people can get randomly inspected by a fire safety inspector.

And I want fire safety inspectors to be feared as much as Judge fucking Dredd. So when they turn up announced, the building management shits a mega-block in fear when they realise that skimping on installing a proper security setup and resorting to chaining/locking fire escapes has just cost them personally a month in jail with a criminal record, issued on the spot!

There's simply no valid excuses for being this reckless with safety.

I lived in Rhode Island when The Station fire happened, and I was working in a restaurant.

I guess one upside is that the fire Marshalls actually took their jobs seriously and the business owners actually listened to them. My boss had to get rid of a conveyor from the basement to the "back" exit, install new fire suppression systems, a larger hood over the grill, a new hood over the stove, and removed a pile of storage from in front of a door that I didn't even know was there...it was the fire exit from the kitchen where I was working.

A few years later when I was looking for an apartment in RI, I noticed how many had retrofitted sprinkler systems that definitely went in after the station.

Of course, memories are short.

I foolishly watched the video footage of the Station. Although maybe it wasn't foolish if it absolutely drilled into my head the importance of fire safety.