7dominator wrote: I was seated that day in the top Mark Club. It was the stand alone glassed in Corporate Box tucked in betwen the Pratt and Heatley stands.
From there we looked straight down towards the fire.
What always stood out was the complete lack of organization. How anybody wasn't seriously hurt was beyond me. In fact it would not be an understatement to suggest it could have been a real disaster.
IIRC it was quite a breezy day and this helped fan the flames, additionally the crowd size ( as you would expect at a Carlton/Collingwood game) restricted crowd movement.
It was an incredible spectacle to witness hundreds and hundreds of people crammed on the terraces oblivious to what was happening behind them.
Of more alarm was the time it took the masses around the fire to comprehend the severity of the situation. To see the fire continually and aggressively moving out of contol and nothing happening was quite surreal.
The lack of direction and crowd control by police and staff was a major concern.
Looking back at it and remembering the Liverpool disaster 3 years later one can only shake their head and think there but for the grace of god...... You could not have picked a better day to be up in a corporate box away from the fire!  
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