4 elderly women die in nursing home fire in Nagasaki
NAGASAKI —
Four elderly women died after a fire destroyed part of a nursing home for patients suffering from dementia in Nagasaki on Friday night. Several other elderly residents were injured in the fire, police said.
Police said the fire broke out at around 7:30 p.m. on the first floor of the Bell House group home, located near Glover Garden, TBS reported. Firefighters battled the blaze in two rooms on the first floor of the three-story building for around two hours before finally bringing it under control.
The four victims were aged 77, 82, 86 and 88. Eight others suffered injuries, police said.
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zichi
There were a few more living there than licensed for. It had no sprinkler system even though the gov't gives a grant for 50% of the costs but only about 600 homes out of 2,000+ have installed a sprinkler system.
Sprinkler systems must be made law for these old folks homes.
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Yubaru
The people who run this place should be tossed in jail and have the key thrown away. According to today's noontime news this home was cited last year for having violation to the fire code and nothing was done about it.
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Tessa
I haven't really been keeping up with the latest news about this ... but I have to question why so many elderly people are living in sub-standard nursing homes. Don't their children check up on this stuff beforehand? I mean, they would do the same thing for their own kids before placing them in daycare centres, so why not for their own parents? Some questions need to be asked, and not just to the nursing home operators.
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Cortes Elijah
Really sad. Rest in peace.
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OrangeXenon54
That's awful. Yes, many they rest in peace.
Japan really hasn't learned anything from its centuries long history of building fires. I feel like the vast majority of the buildings in Tokyo would violate fire-code standards in the US.
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Tessa
I have been in so many buildings in Japan that didn't have clearly marked exits, or had the exits blocked. It's almost as if they think that fire-code standards are optional, or something.
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