Word: smoked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just parking and smoke began coming out of the van," Scipeck said. "Everybody started yelling at me to jump out because flames were shooting up from the bottom...
...waitress informed her that there was a small fire in the building. It had begun as an electrical fire in the Zebra Room, adjacent to the bride's dressing room. Before the night was out, the flames would tear through the Beverly Hills, led by a roiling advance of smoke. There were nearly 3,000 people packed into the sprawling club on that Saturday night. All told, the fire would kill 167 of them...
...what of the guests? Most remained guests to the end. Some even continued celebrating, in defiance of the smoke seeping into the rooms. One man ordered a rum and Coke to go. When the first reporter arrived at the fire, he saw guests sipping their cocktails in the driveway, laughing about whether they would get to leave without paying their bills...
...smoke intensified, Wayne Dammert, a banquet captain at the club, stumbled into a hallway jammed with a hundred guests. The lights flickered off and on, and the smoke started to get heavy. But what he remembers most about that crowded hallway is the silence. "Man, there wasn't a sound in there. Not a scream, nothing," he says. Standing there in the dark, the crowd was waiting...
Well, I think there are things that I can certainly identify with. We do fake firefighting on the show--we use real flame and smoke--and you realize, this is hard enough to do when you're pretending to do it. Certainly there are moments I can identify with, [but] these guys live in such a strange place...