it happened a year after 9/11 happened. there was a lot of fear just naturally out there. and people said, let s get out of here. people inside the club begin to run for the stairwell leading down to the front door. it was a very tall, steep stairwell. it was not a stairwell that was built to code, and it really was not suitable for the use that it was put to. and they started running down the stairs. and somebody fell, and then somebody fell on top of them, and somebody fell on top of them. and the next thing you know, people were literally stacked 10, 12 feet high. you look at a scenario where your life is under threat, where you re looking for means of escape. do you choose the door you came in by, the route that you know, or door number two? keith still is a professor in crowd dynamics. it s a marked emergency exit.
keith steele is a professor in crowd dynamics. it s a marked emergency exit. but i don t know if it s open. i don t know where it goes. so my perception of risk is go out the way i came in, it s a safe bet. people stuck in the crush are desperately reaching for relief. local freelance videographer kent hurslic is part of the first camera crew to arrive, capturing the only video of the scene. there were people that were stuck in the doorway, and they could not get out. they just became so interlocked that they couldn t pull the people out. they were going to pull a limb off if you were going to pull somebody out of the there. firefighters must enter to the back of the club to access people piled up along the stairwell leading to the front
happened. there was a lot of fear just naturally out there. and people said, let s get out of here. people inside the club begin to run for the stairwell leading down to the front door. it was a very tall, steep stairwell. it was not a stairwell that was built to code, and it really was not suitable for the use that it was put to. and they started running down the stairs. and somebody fell, and then somebody fell on top of them, and somebody fell on top of them. and the next thing you know, people were literally stacked 10, 12 feet high. we look at a scenario where your life is under threat, where you re looking for means of escape. do you choose the door you came in by, the route that you know, or door number two? keith still is a professor in england and specializes in crowd dynamics.
and somebody fell, and then somebody fell on top of them, and somebody fell on top of them. and the next thing you know, people were literally stacked 10, 12 feet high. you look at a scenario where your life is under threat, where you re looking for means of escape. do you choose the door you came in by, the route that you know, or door number two? keith is a professor in crowd dynamics. it s a marked emergency exit. but i don t know if it s open. i don t know where it goes. so my perception of risk is go out the way i came in, it s a safe bet. people stuck in the crush are desperately reaching for relief. local freelance videographer kent hurslic is part of the first camera crew to arrive,
or door number two? keith is a professor in crowd dynamics. it s a marked emergency exit. but i don t know if it s open. i don t know where it goes. so my perception of risk is go out the way i came in, it s a safe bet. people stuck in the crush are desperately reaching for relief. local freelance videographer kent hurslic is part of the first camera crew to arrive, capturing the only video of the scene. there were people that were stuck in the doorway, and they could not get out. they just became so interlocked that they couldn t pull the people out. they were going to pull a limb off if you were going to pull somebody out of the there. firefighters must enter to