The show is surrounded by water. How much would it have cost Disney to install 4 or 5 jet pumps in the water with nozzels pointed right at the dragon? Flick an emergecy switch and the stage is blasted with an unlimited supply of water.
That would have been a VERY cheap solutuon that would have stopped this in seconds...and probably would have saved Murphy.
That’s easy to say in hindsight.
You could prevent out greatly limit almost any disaster in hindsight, but even if you tried to account for everything and tripled every budget, stuff would still go wrong occasionally.
Extra money and effort was spent to increase the safety and resilience of the Titanic, yet it still sunk, and many lessons were still learned. Every time something like this happens (not comparing a Disney dragon burning to the Titanic) you learn how not to do something, or something else you should’ve done.
The last U.S. aviation crash was in 2009, which is a great accomplishment, but it’s because we had decades of learning what not to do and how to fix them, so the industry became safer.
Flying today is hundreds of times safer than it was 50 years ago, so if you applied the crash rates of planes 50 years ago now to today’s flight volumes, you would have about a crash a week (with hundreds of people onboard).
This doesn’t excuse when stuff goes wrong, when there’s negligence at play, people should be held accountable, but malfunctions or failures go wrong that weren’t accounted for.
Guess they relied so much on their thoughts of emergency cutoffs they never thought to address a breakout fire :/