This is a happy story that doesn’t fall into the “Gun Death” Files
The quick thinking of a U.S. Army staff sergeant likely helped prevent a fire inside a Seattle night club from becoming a tragedy during New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Seattle police say 750 were people celebrating in the club Neighbours when an arsonist poured gasoline on a carpeted stairway and set it ablaze.
KIRO-TV reports (http://is.gd/rdeMRP ) that in the first seconds after the fire started, Staff Sgt. Christopher Bostick grabbed a fire extinguisher from behind the bar. Then he and Air Force member Mike Casey put out the fire.
Bostick, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, expects the fire would have become unmanageable in less than a minute.
A crowded place on fire due to gasoline-soaked carpets would have certainly resulted in several deaths and many serious injuries. But it wasn’t because we have heroes that live amount us.
Thank you!
Gas on the staircase is bad news. There’s a precedent for that method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire