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There is a sprinkler system mounted to the inside surface of the arena roof.
This may fail to operate during a power failure/water pump failure. Water delivery to outside taps, showers, the mess hall and the arena washrooms ceased when a power failure occurred during an RSE event in the summer of 2008.
- Flammables which off-gas toxic fumes in a fire (foam and rubber mattresses, out-door clothing),
are stored against the inside periphery walls and on the floor of the arena during events.
- Participants often sleep in the arena with all doors closed and lights off during events. Following wine ceremonies the participants may be drunk and/or unconscious from over consumption of alcohol.
- Participants at RSE events are not provided with instructions for emergency/fire evacuation procedures for the arena at events.
- Apparently there is little consideration given to the safe evacuation of children or the handicapped in cases where an emergency evacuation of the arena is required.
- Smoking of pipes inside the arena during wine ceremonies is encouraged and permitted. Cigarettes are also smoked within the arena during these evening parties.
3. Blockages to arena aisle ways and doorways:
- Even with the arena not fully occupied with 2000 people, participants and their belongings
often block the aisle ways and doorways.
-When overflow participants also occupy the arena, passage along the aisle ways and through the doorways is severely impeded.
4. Evacuation of the arena in emergencies/fire:
- With 2000 participants in the arena, and just two main aisle ways
leading to the doorways, it is likely that some would not be able to exit the building in a timely fashion even if the aisle ways were ignored and participants made directly for the doorways by trying to traverse the mass of other participants and their belongings in the seating areas.
- When the RSE arena is filled to 2000 participants, assuming that all of the six possible
doorways would be utilized to evacuate the building, an average of 318 people would need to reach each of the doorways.
- During an emergency evacuation of the arena, with only four doorways being utilized (a more likely scenario), an average of 500 participants would be trying to access each of the four doorways which are located at opposite ends of a long building.
- In the recent Russian nightclub fire, there were 200 participants and one exit. Over 100 of them died through
either being trampled when all the guests headed for the exit at once, or through injuries directly related to smoke or the fire.
A large problem was the delay in evacuating the Russian nightclub because participants did not SEE the danger of the fire/smoke until it was too late. Many were simply overcome before they could escape.
The same could easily happen in RSE's arena with its poor ventilation and overcrowding at events.
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- If a fire started in the office building or on one of the outside walls (a converted travel trailer located adjacent to the back wall of the arena serves as a coffee take-out), and quietly spread, building up heat until it
eventually burst through the wall of the arena, that would immediately close off at least one if not two doorway exits.
- In the RSE arena, the toxicity of smoke produced from a fire involving many of the items stored within the building such as foam and rubber mattresses, clothing, and sitting cushions stuffed with Styrofoam, along
with the fumes from melting Astroturf (plastic) could quickly prove to be deadly; especially if evacuation of the Arena was hampered in any way.
-It should be the responsibility of the operator of a business which serves as a gathering venue to ensure that the facility is safe for that purpose, but when that safety level is questionable, we hope that it is the Fire Marshal's responsibility to ensure the public's safety.
5. Concerns with respect to "wine ceremonies" held within the arena; alcohol consumption and drug use:
- Wine ceremonies which are most similar to rave parties (deafening rock music, dancing, alcohol/drug use),
are announced and held apparently at the whim of JZ Knight when she appears as Ramtha. - Wine ceremonies take place within the arena and most often begin before 9 pm and last for 5 hours or more.
- Participants are not told in advance that there will be a wine ceremony but most participants bring a supply of wine to events, should a wine ceremony be spontaneously announced.
- Wine that is brought to events by participants is shared with fellow participants during wine ceremonies.
- Children are permitted to be present in the arena during wine ceremonies.
- The drinking of wine to induce drunkenness is participated in and encouraged by JZ Knight when she appears as Ramtha, as well as by the staff during wine ceremonies at events.
- Participants are encouraged and permitted to attain drunkenness while attending wine ceremonies within the arena.
- Vomit bags are provided by staff to each participant upon entering the arena to participate in wine ceremonies because it is known and expected that some participants will become ill.
- During wine ceremonies there is little control exercised by staff with respect to alcohol, drug use or the behavior of participants either inside or outside of the arena.
- Severely inebriated or violent participants are removed from the arena; and are most often given into the care of other participants who may also be drunk.
- There are no on-site emergency medical services provided during events, but during wine ceremonies it is difficult, if not impossible to locate a sober staff member, save for the front gate guard who is armed.
6. Health and sanitation concerns with respect to the Arena:
- The washroom facilities have only cold running water; it is not possible for participants to wash hands in warm water; hot water is provided only for food preparation in the storage area adjoining the men's washroom facilities.
- The toilet facilities are not adequate to serve the hundreds of participants that attend events within the arena; the majority of participants must leave the arena during breaks to access out-door Porta-potties.
- The arena is ventilated by opening the doors and/or running the ventilation fans located in the roof.
- In the colder/wetter months the doors are kept closed to retain heat within the building but with hundreds of participants the ventilation is inadequate.
- In the warmer months the doors are left open to facilitate cooling but this is often inadequate and with hundreds of participants located inside, the temperature within the arena is often unbearable.
- During events, participants are required to frequently (more than 5 times/day), leave the arena for out-door workshops and exercises in all types of weather.
- The arena serves as a storage place for participant's out-door clothing, and during inclement weather there is considerable humidity created by the storage of wet coats and muddy boots within the participant seating area.
- When the weather has been wet for days, participants' inner and outer clothing is often consistently damp.
- This damp clothing and muddy footwear may be the only items available to participants; so it is worn in that state of dampness each time participants are required to go out doors.
- Although the floor has been surfaced with Astroturf, a constant source of dampness is emitted from the dirt base under the Astroturf.
7. Concerns regarding communicable diseases and use of the Arena:
- Outbreaks of respiratory tract and other viral diseases commonly affects more than 40% of
participants at events lasting longer than three days.
- There is no infirmary/medical room on site during events for participants who fall ill.
- Participants who become too ill to participate in the event often retire to their tent which also may be damp and cold.
- Medical personnel (staff or participants) who may be on site during events are banned from assisting those who require medical attention of any sort.
- Only during severe outbreaks of disease does RSE offer transportation to medical services to participants who require it.
- Due to the nature of the philosophies (People create their own reality either consciously or unconsciously; and have the power to change it instantly.), promoted at RSE, many participants who do fall ill during events shun medical attention or treatment in favor of practicing the spiritual healing methods as promoted by RSE.
- Participants are often berated by JZ Knight as Ramtha for falling ill, and may not admit to themselves or others that they are ill until their condition is critical.
- In 2008 during the winter Blue College event several people fell critically ill and when they were missed by other participants during the event, it was discovered that they had been suffering alone in their tents. Many of these
severely ill participants were from foreign countries and did not speak English.
- The effect of: - a cold and wet climate
- perpetual dampness of participants' bedding and clothing
- camping in tents during inclement weather
- inadequate indoor toilet facilities for the number of participants
- inadequate supply of warm water in which to wash hands on site
- showers that are outdoor, unheated and restricted to three minutes/participant
- inadequate time and facilities for all participants to shower regularly
- a physically demanding program of indoor and outdoor workshop exercises
- sleep deprivation
- overcrowding of participants and their wet clothing within the arena
- perpetual dampness within the arena
- lack of on-site accessible medical care
- and a philosophical belief system that promotes shame upon those who fall ill,
all contribute to the spread of communicable diseases among participants at RSE events;
especially those events that take place in the winter, spring and fall.
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