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From Huffington Post: Prison Fire in Comayagua, Honduras
A fire started by an inmate tore through the prison Tuesday night,
burning and suffocating screaming men in their locked cells as rescuers
desperately searched for keys. Officials confirmed 358 dead, making it
the world's deadliest prison fire in a century.
Survivors told horrific tales of climbing walls to break the sheet metal
roofing and escape, only to see prisoners in other cell blocks being
burned alive. Inmates were found stuck to the roofing, their bodies
fused to the metal.
From the time firefighters received a call at 10:59 p.m. local time, the
rescue was marred by human error and conditions that made the prison
ripe for catastrophe.
According to the report, obtained exclusively by the AP, on any given
day there were about 800 inmates in a facility built for 500. There were
only 51 guards by day and just 12 at night – the case at the time of the
fire.
The GCP event was set for 6 hours beginning at 11 pm local time in
Honduras (05:00 - 11:00 UTC Feb 15). The result is Chisquare
21757.060 on 21600.000 for p = 0.225 and Z = 0.757.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish
signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be
largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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