!!!BREAKING NEWS!!!

by josephus 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  josephus

  a big fire has broken out in a hotel in the phillipines.

  reports say most deaths were from a religous org meeting for a convention.

  any ideas if its jws ?

  josephus
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  nytelecom1

  Eugene Schwebler, a 60-year-old hotel guest from Wisconsin who escaped the blaze, said a contingent from the missionary group Missionary Evangelists Philippines-World were staying at the hotel for a convention.

  ``There were 160 people in our group,'' he said. ``I don't know how many came out. The lights went out and we heard people screaming.''

  Schwebler said he tried to leave through the corridor but the heat turned him back to his room. He said he then pulled the air conditioner out of the wall to give him access to the fire escape.
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  josephus

  NOPE SOUND THE ALL CLEAR. it was different weirdoes

  .....
  QUEZON CITY, Philippines (AP) - Fire swept through a six-story
  hotel in a Manila suburb before dawn Saturday, killing at least 68
  people, firefighters said.

  Many of the dead were packed into hotel bathrooms after apparently
  trying to escape the flames and smoke at the Manor Hotel in Quezon
  City, they said.

  The fire broke out at about 4:15 a.m. and was extinguished 3 1/2 hours
  later.

  Firefighter Nivart Ulayo said when he arrived screaming men, women
  and children were trapped in their rooms by metal bars on the windows
  - a common anti-burglar feature in Manila.

  Firefighters said they recovered 56 bodies in an initial foray into the
  hotel, then another 12 and were still searching more rooms.

  The bodies were placed outside the building. Many of them, apparently
  those of Filipinos, showed no signs of injury from flames. Firefighters
  said they appeared to have died from suffocation.

  Eugene Schwebler, a 60-year-old hotel guest from Wisconsin who
  escaped the blaze, said a contingent from the missionary group
  Missionary Evangelists Philippines-World were staying at the hotel for a
  convention.

  ``There were 160 people in our group,'' he said. ``I don't know how
  many came out. The lights went out and we heard people screaming.''

  Schwebler said he tried to leave through the corridor but the heat turned
  him back to his room. He said he then pulled the air conditioner out of
  the wall to give him access to the fire escape.

  Schwebler said he thought the fire started in a restaurant on the third
  floor.

  Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte said the first two floors of the
  hotel were used as offices. But he said firefighters were unable to
  immediately search one floor of hotel rooms for bodies because the fire
  badly weakened the structure.

  Belmonte said the city had previously warned the hotel of inadequate
  fire safety.

  An unidentified woman interviewed by DZMM radio said she was
  trapped in her third-floor room by metal bars on the window but
  firefighters using a ladder cut the bars from outside to extract her.

  The fire was the deadliest in the Philippines since the Ozone Disco Pub
  inferno of March 19, 1996, which killed 162 people in a night club
  packed with more than 350 people, which had no fire exits.
  ....

  jo
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  josephus

  DAAAAAAM

  you guys are quick!!

  thank you for the info sorry i repeated it.

  josephus
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  Stephanus

  So it's okay for people to die horribly, so long as they are "weirdos" of one kind or another, Josephus?