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04/15/2005:

"Paris Hotel Fire Kills at Least 20 People"

PARIS (AP) -- People screamed to be rescued from flames -- some even jumped from windows -- as a fire roared through a Paris hotel early Friday used by the government to house needy African families. At least 20 people were killed, half of them children, officials said.

More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously. The fire was thought to have started in a first-floor breakfast room of the one-star Paris Opera hotel in the capital's 9th district, a popular tourist area, fire officials said.
Full Article: nytimes.com

I guess Africans only rate one-star i.e. firetraps.