Selfie at multi-fatal fire has firefighters in trouble
SMACSS (Social Media Assisted Career Suicide Syndrome) in action again in Russia. Last week it was a paramedic who was fired after taking selfies with patients in the ambulance and this week it’s firefighters in Russia in selfie trouble. This happened at last week’s shopping center fire that killed 17 people.
Paramedic firefighter over selfies in ambulance
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These two firefighters could be looking for new jobs soon after taking this picture.
Inside, 17 people were killed as the blaze ripped through the shopping centre.
Yegor Tokaryev wrote under the picture: ‘Christ! People are dying in there and these men are smiling and taking photos!! They are there to save lives.’
Svetlana Kapustina wrote: ‘It makes me sick to think that while those poor people were burning to death these two were treating it as some sort of joke. Shame on them.’
Russian authorities say two firefighters will face administrative punishment for taking selfies in front of a blazing shopping mall and posting the photos on the Internet.
The Regional Emergency Situations Department of Tatarstan said on March 15 that authorities are probing the incident that took place when emergency teams were extinguishing a fire in the Admiral shopping complex in Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan region.
