This is the wake of a tragic fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil last weekend that took 236 lives. The blaze was set off by a performer who used an outdoor los angeles car rental lowest prices flare in the venue as part of a show, officials los angeles car rental lowest prices said.
The office singles out the night of June 17 when, it says, the venue had 1,074 patrons, nearly double its capacity, allowed illegal los angeles car rental lowest prices fireworks, used bedding los angeles car rental lowest prices for seating, had a trapeze artists swinging over an "overcrowded" dance floor, and had blocked exits.
17 criminal los angeles car rental lowest prices counts, including one count of conspiracy, two counts of allowing an excessive occupancy load, one count of illegal discharge of fireworks, failure to secure a building permit, and multiple fire, safety, los angeles car rental lowest prices and zoning code violations.
The office says the club was shut down by the L.A. Fire Department for alleged overcrowding Nov. 1 and that the department had warned the venue previously that the trapeze performances and fireworks were illegal.
los angeles car rental lowest prices The venue was connected to the July, 2011 "rave riot" in which superstar DJ Kaskade tweeted that he was performing a free show on Hollywood Boulevard . Ravers rushed to the street and stood off with police into the night.
The appearance coincided with the screening of a rave documentary at Grauman's Chinese Theater. The film about the 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival featured Kaskade prominently. Here's los angeles car rental lowest prices what we wrote back then:
... The venue Supperclub, which we were told is owned by the same folks who own the Chinese Theater, took out the permit for a red-carpet curbside lane-closure. And a permit service source told us that having Kaskade make a grand entrance with music and a truck was planned as early as Wednesday morning.
Michael Duddie, general manager of Supperclub, told the Los Angeles Times that he had booked Kaskade for the premier's after-party at the club that night but did not, in the Times words, "organize his film entrance."
That claim conflicts with what a Bureau of Street Services spokesman Richard los angeles car rental lowest prices Lee told us, namely that a permit for the red-carpet screening was taken out in the names of Supperclub los angeles car rental lowest prices and Kaskade (actually we were told it was spelled los angeles car rental lowest prices "Cascade").
[Added at 1:20 p.m.]: We asked the City Attorney's office is the timing of the case had anything to do with the tragedy in Brazil. Spokesman Mateljan told us it was a coincidence -- that prosecutors filed charges (today) ...
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