cial clubs in the city. These clubs are illegal for many reasons ; weather it is from selling alcohol with no permit or not following building codes.The Happy Land social club was not unknown by fire and police inspectors. It’s not uncommon for such a place to pop up in the city over night. As in many of these social clubs such as the Happy Land social club they are A firetrap. Eighty - seven people perished for many reasons.Page 3 of 4 Even though A maniac set the fire and returned back too the scene too watch this all unfold ; there are a lot of other individuals or agencies to blame. The owner of the building allowed this type of business to be opened knowing that it was illegal. This A was small club that they over crowed especially on the weekends. The Happy Land social club had no sprinkler system inside. Witch are required in most gathering places. If the building was sprinkled it might of Knocked the fire down. Even though in this case most people died of smoke inhalation it might of saved some lives.Since this club was illegal there were know windows in the building. There were two doors the, main entrance and a door that lead too the roof of the building next store. Unfortunately this door was locked, this limited the means of egress to the front door exit only. There was only one problem with this. Since the door was on the first floor any one who was on the second floor had to pass the fire only one person successfully did this and lived.He was one of two people two get out of the seconded floor alive. For a estimated 100 people to escape through one door in a rush. Just is not going too work to well. Mr.Valladarez stated that they never thought there would be a fire and that they kept the door locked when there was a small crowed. Page 4 of 4 This social club also had know fire alarms whether it was a local alarm or a monitored alarm. Witch is required ; but I don’t think this would have made a difference. An...
