TwentyEight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

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From Thursday, April 10, 2003
Article MAKHACHKALA, Russia   A fire in a
boarding school for the deaf in southern Russia
killed 28 children and seriously injured 17
others Thursday, as rescuers raced from bed to
bed to awaken students who could not hear alarms.
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Republican School for Deaf ChildrenA two story
boarding school for deaf students awakened by
fire flames.

• Home to children between ages of 6 and 14 years
  old.
• Children who died in fire were ages 6 and 7.
• They were mostly boys.

• Children were thrown from the windows onto
  mattresses.
• Some children took shelter under furniture.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• Fire department chief Artur Akhmedov said the
  blaze spread quickly.
• The blaze engulfed the wing where the schools
  youngest children were sleeping.
• It is said to have been caused by a short circuit
  that occured when electricity was restored to the
  building after a blackout.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• Firefighters rescued 138 people from the burning
  building.
• Those who were rescued were hospitalized for
  burns, smoke inhalation, fractures, and shock.
• 17 are in serious condition.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• Zoya Darayeva, the principal, told Rossian
  television that a night attendant smelled smoke
  right before an outlet burst into flames .
• Thick smoke was then visualized by the attendant.
• Staff attempted to put fire out, which delayed
  the call to the fire department by 9 minutes.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• The main hospital is located 1,000 miles south in
  Moscow.
• An Emergency Situations Ministry plane from
  Moscow
• arrived in Makhachkala with a team of doctors
  and medication for the injured.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire
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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• The building was damaged heavily.
• All the windows were shattered.
• Furniture was burned completely and the walls
  were blackened.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• Building code Violations are blamed for the fire.
  
• Russian prime minister ordered immediate fire
  safety surveys for all Russian schools.
• 50 people a day- 180,000 a year- die in Russian
  fires.
• The fire death toll is 4 times more than the
  U.S., which has twice their population.
• 700 fires were reported for damaging schools in
  Russia.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire

• Russian news agencies reported that those who
  were seriously injured rushed to capital for
  treatment.
• These are Common Children, this is our common
  tragedy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said ,
  according to a Russian anchor.
• The president pledged the government would aid
  the victims as much as possible.

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Twenty-Eight Dead in Russian Deaf School Fire
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