Mamdani’s incendiary socialist sparkler |
Appalling scenes from the fatal New Year’s Eve bar fire in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, were captured on camera phones by people there for the party. In video shared on social media, one sees dancers parading behind a man who progresses through the bar with a sparkler held aloft close to the low basement ceiling. Then you see a small area of that ceiling on fire; flames ripple out like shallow wavelets running up the sands of a beach.
Suddenly, the scene changes dramatically for the worse. The whole bar is filled with smoke illuminated by a red glow; then people are rushing for a narrow stairway to the only exit; immediately afterward, the whole building seems to be a mass of flame, and you hear screams from people panicked and perhaps trapped.
It is ghastly to behold the swift transitions from seasonal fun, through mild surprise and even an amused thrill at the outbreak of a small conflagration, to real alarm, then outright terror.
A striking thing in the video is the sight of people who, even after the ceiling is alight and the fire spreading across it, even after one or more revelers can be seen flapping clothing at the flames to put them out, nevertheless continue to enjoy themselves, merely looking, cheering, dancing, or capturing events on their phones rather than heading for the exit........