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==History== [[File:City Lit fire exit London.JPG|thumbnail|This was originally an entrance, as indicated by the carved name of the building, but the opening is now only used as a fire exit (London).]] Following the events of the [[Victoria Hall disaster]] in [[Sunderland]], England, in 1883 in which more than 180 children died because a door had been bolted at the bottom of a stairwell, the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] began legal moves to enforce minimum standards for building safety. This slowly led to the legal requirement that venues must have a minimum numbers of outward opening emergency exits as well as locks which could be opened from the inside. These moves were not globally copied for some time. For example, in the United States, 146 factory workers died in the [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire]] in 1911 when they were stopped by locked exits, and 492 people died in the [[Cocoanut Grove fire]] in a Boston nightclub in 1942. This led to regulations requiring that exits of large buildings open outward, and that enough emergency exits be provided to accommodate the building's capacity. Similar disasters around the world also resulted in public fury and calls for changes to emergency regulations and enforcement. An investigation was launched by the Argentine federal government after 194 people were killed during the 2004 [[República Cromañón nightclub fire]] in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina. The emergency exits had been chained shut by the owners, to prevent people from sneaking into the nightclub without paying.<ref>{{cite news|last=Reel|first=Monte|title=Fire, panic, and a locked main exit|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38140-2004Dec31.html|access-date=July 11, 2012|newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 1, 2005}}</ref>
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