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Many of history’s deadliest building fires have been in nightclubs. Here’s why they’re so dangerous

By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Ruggiero Lovreglio, Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

A fire in a nightclub in North Macedonia is the latest in a long string of such tragedies. Why are nightclubs so risky for fires?

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