NIST Re-creation of "The Station Night Club fire" without sprinklers

This is a NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) recreation of the tragic "The Station Night Club Fire" that occurred in Rhode Island in 2003. NIST (Daniel Madrzykowski) has done an excellent job of re-creating the fuel load and showing the progression of the fire and also showing the temperatures that were produced by the fire. For the full report visit the NIST website or CFI trainer.com.

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[hebneh]

Fires can look so amazingly inconsequential when they start - but in less than one minute, you can be dead.

[gmenfan2003]

It's sad to think that if the fire exits had been utilized during that fire, so many lives would have been saved. People are creatures of habit and everybody tried to leave the way they came in.

[hebneh]

@toopritee After watching this video, and others showing fire disasters, I can say with great assurance that if I ever have the bad luck to be present at an indoor fire, I will be moving immediately to the nearest exit as soon as I see any hint of flames or smoke. And I'll be taking as many other people with me as possible.

[toopritee]

@hebneh It's scary because a part of me wonders: What would be my level of urgency if I was there?

[Arcname]

Remember, the spreading of fire is an exponential process.

[scouthatesrainbows]

and now you know, but knowing is half the battle.

[pureintellectual]

crap that would suck

[Tamadrummer1981]

Literally watching the thermal layer start to drop at 1:04, sent chills down my spine, we analyze "The Station" fire, in the academy quite a bit, so much can be learned.

[flames41418]

it absolutely amazes me how the thermal layering gets that low in just 1:30...

[JosephP55]

This was an amazingly accurate recreation. I watched it side by side with the actual video of the fire and it looks almost identical. In the real fire, the band didn't even stop playing until 30 seconds; the fire alarm went off at 50 seconds, and the camera man made it out the front door in 90 seconds---at the end of the simulation video when the smoke has overwhelmed everyone behind him.

[MrIrreversible]

Scary