ABSTRACT
The o ne manager to survive the inferno was called Gilbert Bas. He afterwards described how he had been sitting in the club office when he had seen the alarm s ignal - a double flashing light - go off on h is console. He at fi rst assumed that it was the usual thing - another fis t fight at the door - but when he got out onto the dance floo r he heard cries of ~ fire! " He raced out of the club and drove s traight to SaintLaurent to raise the alann. He felt there was nothing else he could do - Club Cinq-Sept did not even have a telephone.
