This is going to be another not-so-funny Sidecarsally story. If a man dies while trying to have sex with an alligator, that’s funny, but not when a bunch of people die in a fire.

A deadly fire ripped through a government-owned day care center in Hermosillo, Mexico on Friday. Since then, the death toll has risen from 21 to 38 children killed — most of them from smoke inhalation. Several children, however, were very badly burned.

142 children and 7 adults were in the building when its roof caught fire from a blaze that started next door. It is reported that the building had two exit doors, but one of them was padlocked. Here’s a math equation: 142 kids (many of them infants) + 7 adults watching over them + 1 rapidly-spreading fire + 2 exits – 1 exit (padlocked) = 1 EPIC FAIL SCENARIO.

Some parents rammed their cars into the building to create emergency exits, and others helped rescue as many children as they could, but almost 27% of them ended up dying. Sorry, I’m all about mathematics today.

This was not a drill.

A Mexican official stated that the building (a warehouse converted to a day care facility) passed a safety inspection last month. He did not comment, however, on whether “inaccessible emergency exits” are a safety violation or not. I guess that saying “anything goes in Mexico” is true.

My best wishes go out to the victims of this horrible tragedy. I’d pray for them too, but this is just another example of why there is no God.

Tonight, I’m gonna fight me a fire. I suggest you do the same.