[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Cherie

17 now dead

I was thinking maybe those fireladders like they have in New York would be helpful on high rise buildings ,I am hearing now there were no smoke alarms going off !!

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Originally Posted by Kazanne

I was thinking maybe those fireladders like they have in New York would be helpful on high rise buildings ,I am hearing now there were no smoke alarms going off !!

its the nature of the fire. As it seems to have travelled up the outside of the building the standard fire prevention/alert mechanisms weren't so effective. Also it spread so quickly that it couldn't be contained sufficiently quickly enough. In typical circumstances each apartment "should" be its own isolated zone. Whatever interfered with that should be looked into quickly along with how it spread so quickly up the outside, although that has received a lot of attention already.