The whole place reminded me of something you might find in a less developed country w/o the regulatory safety infrastructure and litigiousness of the U.S. Like, everything can just go sideways under the right conditions but for the most part it operates and things, chaotic as they may be.
But, yeah, I really REALLY could not believe how many people died before it closed. At one point, there were 2 deaths in a week or something crazy like that.