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[Adventurer]

I was going through some old magazines I have from Korea, and I had kept one with Bill Kapoun on the cover. I had kept it for so long. Recently, I tossed it in the recycling bin, and I remember the guy.
I also remembered how many foreigners donated money to his family, which was great. I can't remember if I donated money or not, but I donated money for other causes. Of course, there was also that South African girl who died, bless her soul.

http://savebillkapoun.blogspot.com/2008/03/sad-news.html

May Bill Kapoun rest in peace... Some of us complain, but we are lucky to be alive!

[Caro wack]

It was cool to put that up. You can see from the picture of
him with his students the kind of guy he was.

[Caro wack]

It was cool to put that up. You can see from the picture of
him with his students the kind of guy he was.

There is a very old , obscure pop song by the Tams, a group
no one on this board knows, that has a line I think about every day...

"Life is too short to worry about unimportant things..."

[Jane]

I still think of him from time to time, same for the South African girl, particularly when I've had it with Korea. It puts things into perspective.

[sokocanuck21]

That's awful how something like that can happen. Truely sad.
On a related note; do many of you have fire safety in your apartments, other than the standard extinguisher?
Last year I lived on the 10th floor and there was no sprinklers to be seen.
Luckily, I'm on the 3rd floor of a villa this time around.
You'd think that would be a top priority here, considered most apartments have gas stoves and space heaters running all the time.

[Adventurer]

[marlow]

The Bill Kapoun tragedy made me really depressed for a few weeks. It was just something that so easily could have happened to me. I remember living in a first floor apartment with a kitchen and a porch between me and the ONLY exit. All other exits were barred windows. No smoke detectors, sprinklers or fire extinguishers.

Now that I have a family and have to think about more than myself I have become a fire safety freak. Especially after the Kapoun tragedy. After my first son was born we got smoke detectors for the apartment, but after last year we got more, so that every sleeping room and the main exit routes have detectors. We also have fire extinguishers in the rooms we sleep in because waking up to a fire doesn't mean you can escape through it or get to the building hose, extinguishers or exits. I also thought about how dangerous just the heat of fires must be so that obviously the risk isn't just clothes catching fire but heat burns from an intense fire.

I'm still curious how the fire investigation went. I have no idea how the Bill Kapoun fire started, if it was arson, or if it was accidental and opened the gas valve or what.

[Adventurer]

[hugekebab]

[ChinaBoy]

[rowdie3]

Really? It didn't affect you at all??? I feel sorry for you if that's true.

I live in Itaewon. Bill's story affected everyone I know here and even people back home who followed the story on Facebook. It made everyone think that this could have just as easily happened to them. Scary stuff. My thoughts continue to be with all three families involved in these two stories.

[Enrico Palazzo]