Hundreds Still in Hospital After Fire at Taiwan Music Party
Source: AP
More than 400 people, many of them seriously burned, remained in hospitals Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music party at a Taiwan water park, authorities said.
The fire late Saturday was sparked by an accidental explosion of a colored theatrical powder thrown from the stage in front of about 1,000 people, the local fire agency and media said. The powder for the one-time event called "Color Play Asia" ignited along the ground, mainly burning people's lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liaison with the New Taipei City fire department command center.
The exact cause of the fire was still being investigated, but Taiwan Premier Mao Chih-kuo banned public activities that use the colored powder.
A total of 519 people were injured by the fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, according to a statement from the city government's health bureau. It said that 419 remained hospitalized on Sunday afternoon, about half of whom were seriously injured, including 184 in intensive care. Apart from Taiwanese, the victims were four people from Hong Kong, two from the Chinese mainland and one each from Macau, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. The nationalities of three other foreigners were not given.
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Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Color runs, one can be reasonably sure that none of the runners are smoking.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)The discussion included videos of powdered sugar burning, but the corn starch that was remarked to have been used at the water park and that is used at some color runs can ignite just as easily. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141129577#post5
Just about any fine powdered substance can burn and/or exploded.
Corn Starch Explosion:
Grain Dust Explosion
Dust Explosions
Exploding Custard
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)My point is that there is huge difference between a crowd of concert goers and people participating in a run.
There are far fewer ignition source in the middle of a street.
That's not to say that there are no risks in a color run, but the odds of someone lighting up at a concert are pretty high.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)if you have ever suffered a burn you realize how tragic this is .