Holland Casino in Groningen has been completely destroyed due to a huge fire that swallowed up building around 7am on August 27 Sunday. The massive fire raged on for most of the day and firefighters were able to get it under control around 3:30pm. Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured, but millions worth of Euros of damage was done.
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It is not far off a miracle that nobody was seriously hurt and we can be truly thankful for that. This looked like a nice casino and it really is a shame that thus building has been destroyed
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Perhaps this casino has hidden the sins and the gods have punished him. It is a bad thing for a building to fire and asbestos is very dangerous but I do not understand one thing. This casino has 200 employees. Even failed to stop at least that fire. What kind of substances exist in that casino by failing to quickly quench the fire. More certainly it was a criminal hand and they were taken by surprise.
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its stange that they still didnt find cause of this fire and what happend with casino!is it human mistake or some installations!so now 200 people will not have job,till they find new place for casino!most important that nobody is hurth!
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Black page indeed. Couldnt be more black. The good is that no one died. If they were properly insured they will manage somehow, but the question also is, how much cash they had in. Lets hope that asbestos particles, werent spread with the smoke.
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Hello my friends Wow mobsters in this bad event there is one positive side no one died ans that a plus on such big fire Those kind of events always live behind same sad stories and consequencies like for the workers that saw their jobs gone In this case once wasn`t the client that got burned
Posted by CALICUL: Perhaps this casino has hidden the sins and the gods have punished him.
Perhaps they just had one 'really not happy' customer with some gasoline and matchstick. Pretty sure the computers with the security footages were burned/melted as well.
of course, any tragedy is sad ... but in this case all people were alive and only material damage was caused .... but I think it will not be a critical blow to this casino ..... it will take a little time and they will build a new casino and spinning top again .... such cases
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Everyone in the casino must have been terrified. It is a relief to know that no one was seriously injured in the fire that completely destroyed the casino. Upon further investigation the authorities will find out the fire's origin and cause soon.
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Wow big fire, this is not a situation you can see every day, to destroy all casino in a fire is not easy, most times there is some damage, something is burning and of course some loss of money because of fire, but not all casino like in this situation
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There are many photos allready of the incident, including videos. It wasnt looking it will be that bad, from a couple of videos, but the article says it got completely destroyed. So they must have lost control some how. In one fo the videos its just a part of a wall thats on fire..
Posted by Mober: There are many photos allready of the incident, including videos. It wasnt looking it will be that bad, from a couple of videos, but the article says it got completely destroyed. So they must have lost control some how. In one fo the videos its just a part of a wall thats on fire..
maybe in this case to someone it was beneficial that the casino was destroyed? .... or fraud with insurance, or this fire was made in order to hide some traces of crime or deception .... Perhaps we will never know this because everyone has arranged a version about accidental fire
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wow now that's what I call a fire- to destroy a building completely it really takes some flames and probably it was the case of some materials used in the building process or decoration that were over flammable which cause the fire to spread wildly, just my guess though
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it would be nice to hear some fresh news about this incident and how this fire started!reason can be anything,so police should already have some conclusions!any like somebody said,you cant exclude even insurance fraud!
It is a bad thing for a building to fire and asbestos is very dangerous but I do not understand one thing. This 
