A change to prevent Disaster lateral thinking puzzle
An American nightclub called ‘The Coconut Grove’ had a terrible fire in which over 400 people died. A simple design flaw in the building led to the death toll being so high. Subsequently, regulations were changed to ensure that all public buildings throughout the country eliminated this one detail which proved so deadly.
What was it?
‘The Coconut Grove’ builders built the stairs with woods.
It caught fire and stairs was destroyed. Therefore, people got trapped.
Nice Thought, Its a correct answer
but coconut grove was a single floor building, that means everyone on ground floor only.
The door of The Coconut Grove’ club is opens to inside so when fire broke large number of people rushed towards door so and blocked the door,after the incident it made mandatory to public building to make door opening to outside
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