A Project for a New Global Future » Daycare fire http://www.newglobalfuture.com Reducing the human footprint, one life at a time. Mon, 10 May 2010 00:11:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Way to go, Mexico! http://www.newglobalfuture.com/2009/06/06/way-to-go-mexico/ http://www.newglobalfuture.com/2009/06/06/way-to-go-mexico/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:39:40 +0000 Katrina Seldik http://www.newglobalfuture.com/?p=177
Thanks to Mexico’s lax safety standards, 35 children were killed in a daycare fire yesterday.  The daycare is housed in a former warehouse with only a few small inaccessible windows and only one exit. A mere six adults work at the state-run daycare which can legally accommodate up to 190 children. Mexico has a long history [...]]]> Thanks to Mexico’s lax safety standards, 35 children were killed in a daycare fire yesterday.  The daycare is housed in a former warehouse with only a few small inaccessible windows and only one exit. A mere six adults work at the state-run daycare which can legally accommodate up to 190 children.

Mexico has a long history of large death tolls due to it’s obvious disdain for safety. Why worry about a pandemic when they kill helpless children by essentially trapping them in a burning warehouse with only one way out?

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