By
Ioana Barbura, Coordinating teacher: Tamara Motorga, School: Samuil Vulcan
National College
A
huge tragedy, maybe one of the biggest tragedies in the last 20 years, happened
on 30th October 2015, at the Colectiv
nightclub from Bucharest. A lot of people, more exactly 60 innocent ones, died
in blaze through one of the most terrible ways of dying: burning alive. Try to
imagine this appalling scene: your
friends burning in flames, everybody screaming, fighting for their lives,
trying to escape the nightmarish place. A real horror movie!
Just
imagine being a parent and going to the morgue and your child being so burned
that you can’t even recognize him. Some victims had burns over 98% to 50% of
their bodies. The victims who had burns over more than 50% of their bodies died
on hospital beds, either in Romania, Austria, Holland or even on the road.
What
happened at the Colectiv nightclub is considered to have been indifference from
the members of the band and from the owners of the club. The guys from the band
shouldn’t have lit fireworks in such a small and closed place, which at first
was thought to be a simply inoffensive thing. The owners should have been
informed the moment they had those antiphonic sponges put on the ceiling that
those ones easily catch fire. The ceiling lit in 30 seconds and pieces of sponge
started to fall on the people.
Why
were 400 persons allowed in when there was room for only 100? The entrance door
was closed at the moment of the fire and the 400 people started thundering upon
it trying to save themselves. Even people who didn’t have burns died because of
the smoke they inhaled. There was a man
who risked his life to rescue the others. Claudiu Petre got out among the first
but he turned back inside to save others’ lives and eventually died after saving
the lives of 5 other people. He is a true hero!
Innocent people died though all they wanted
was to have fun, to see a live concert, to get of the monotony: school –house-Facebook
and so on. No, they were not Satanists or whatever else people say, they were
just young people who wanted to have fun, not knowing their end was so close. Not
even their song ‘Goodbye to Gravity’ was a Satanist one.
The
people mobilised very fast with the victims, they donated blood and tried to
help. The majority of clubs and bars in the country closed in solidarity with
the victims. Three days of national mourning for the victims were declared.
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