A Castle employee notified the Great Adventure Fire Brigade at 6:35 p.m. En route, the fire captain noticed the heavy smoke and told park security to notify the Jackson Township Police Department and start implementing the parks mutual aid plan. Goodbye Fright Fest, hello Hallowfest. Crosses indicate where fatalities were discovered. It was acrid, black and heavy and it stunk.'. A medieval-styled faade was built for the Haunted Castle on the site of the Alpen Blitz across from the Muzik Express. Only the red side was operating the night of the fire. Instead, we can offer probabilities., He stresses that its not game over, though. The Mystery and Controversy Surrounding the Fire at the Haunted Castle[42] was produced in 2003 by Peter James Smith, a long-time patron of the Haunted Castle. He would have turned 18 Friday. An annotated edition of t. THE Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey was just like any other theme park on a spring day in 1984. PATRONS ENTERED HAUNTED HOUSE AS FIRE BURNED - New York Times The Haunted Castle, Revisited - NFPA Journal New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. [6][7] The castle's trailers were linked by plywood partitions to create a complex maze. Using FDS, they were better able to predict when the design fire would become oxygen limited. A place for forensic students, medical examiners, morticians and other morbidly interested individuals to respectfully discuss content relevant to a crime scene. School Rings in Rubble. According to The New York Times, the indictment charged the companies with reckless conduct amounting to extreme indifference to human life for failing to take adequate fire prevention measures., At the trial, Chet Schirmer, president of Schirmer Engineering Corporation and chair of both the NFPA Technical Committee on Automatic Sprinklers and the NFPA Board of Directors, along with Rolf Jensen, president of Rolf Jensen and Associates, appeared as defense witnesses. A catastrophic fire - which saw flames "leaping 100 feet in the air" - killed eight teenagers and injured at least seven more. A report on the tragedy released by the National Fire Protection Association said the structure was made of 17 interconnected commercial trailers and plywood frames. Eight of the tragic group got trapped and died of smoke inhalation. Alcoves along the route were used to present vignettes of famous and infamous characters and events from movies, horror and ghost stories, and sometimes real life, with live actors portraying the stars of the scene. Some encountered smoke and immediately headed for exits, while others thought it was a Haunted Castle effect; one group of visitors apparently saw the fire in its incipient stage and remarked how real the illusion seemed, according to Bouchards report. The defendants denied any culpability, and contended that the fire was arson and that no precautions would have saved lives. He said the older youth, who appeared to be familiar with the castle, offered to guide him through. The boy told the police that he had been befriended by a fourteen-year-old boy at the castle's entrance.