Hot in the Subway?

[Taro Toporific]

Only one in six firetrap subways has improvement planJapan Times, August 6
Only about 15 percent of the nation's underground railway stations that failed to meet government fire-prevention standards have drawn up plans for improvement... Nagoya Railroad Co. is slated to complete its plans by fiscal 2005 and the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau by fiscal 2006....
South Korean gets life sentence for subway fire
Aug 6 / ChannelNewsSsia.com
A South Korean court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for starting a subway fire in February which killed 192 people. Kim Dae-Han, 56, a loner with a history of mental illness, was charged with arson and homicide for the fire in the southeastern city of Daegu that also injured 148 people....also sentenced two train drivers and six subway employees to up to five years in prison each for failing to carry out their duties to protect passengers' lives during the disaster.[Taro's note: the driver ran away with the master key locking all the passengers in]

[Caustic Saint]

South Korean gets life sentence for subway fire
Aug 6 / ChannelNewsSsia.com
A South Korean court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for starting a subway fire in February which killed 192 people. Kim Dae-Han, 56, a loner with a history of mental illness, was charged with arson and homicide for the fire in the southeastern city of Daegu that also injured 148 people....also sentenced two train drivers and six subway employees to up to five years in prison each for failing to carry out their duties to protect passengers' lives during the disaster.[Taro's note: the driver ran away with the master key locking all the passengers in]

And let's not forget the genius who cut the power in the station, turning off all the lights and killing the track power, preventing the trains from leaving the station and getting some of those people out of there.

[Taro Toporific]