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Some 90 dogs, cats and birds perished in a pet shop fire Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday night, police said Thursday.
According to police, the manager of the shop saw smoke coming from the building around 7:30 p.m., 30 minutes after he closed the shop. It took firefighters about four hours to extinguish the blaze in which 70 birds, 8 dogs and 12 cats died. Police are investigating the cause of the fire.
© Japan Today
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rjd_jr
That is very sad. Two observations, fires of these types are notoriously hard to control, and the cause is yet unknown so please no rampant speculation.
FishScratchFever
That's really sad. Sounds like it was a really intense fire if it took them 4 hours to put it out.
njboy13
What the Japanese consider a fire hazard is very different than what other industrial countries consider one. There are several fires just waiting to happen here. They do not even inspect companies yearly and just made a law for regular houses to have fire alarms on the second floor! A little late to the game.
cleo
OMG. Poor critters. They must have been terrified.
presidentbaka
Is that true about the 2nd floor law? We received something in the free newspaper for our area today saying something about smoke alarms, but wasn't sure about the law thing. We have 'em anyway, just to be sure, but we're also fortunate that we live in a bungalow with a large garden, so if there was a fire, we'd all be out the bay windows and onto the front lawn in seconds. Japanese houses are not exactly the best for fire safety and it's amazing how quickly they go up in flames, literally in seconds! That's a lot of animals that perished and while I don't want to speculate, the shop owner is going to receive a very tidy sum in insurance claims....providing of course he had insurance.
uberloser
Something tells me he did...
gamecat
A lot of animals for sure. Having seen the pet shops here, I am kind of thinking (well, 100% thinking), that this place had animals stacked to the ceiling like TV's in BicCamera. I am also thinking that these poor little buggers had bright lights pointed at them with noisy customers traumatizing them during the long shop hours, to the point where you could see it in their eyes that they were not happy.
A fire killing 90 animals... Yeah. I think, to be honest, it was a blessed release from their fate at the hands of the one-up-man-ship pet owning brigade i.e., everyone who buys a pet from one of these brutal floor to ceiling animal interrogation centres.
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