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/snip/ stranding people/snip/
in upper stories of skyscapers, with no escape route until a fire
is extinguished is unacceptable.
We have been running away from this problem for years. Maybe now we
will have the backbone to address it.
As I mentioned before, it doesn't seem that adequate planning was
made for the exit stairs to handle the load put on them. They filled
with smoke and dust, and the people trying to get out and the
firefighters tryuing to get up clearly interfered with each other.
That is unacceptable, and can have no effect other than slowing the
evacuation down even more than was planned for.
And giving the building only a two-hour lifetime after a severe fire
is simply condemning the firefighters to death.
I have to admit, I am at a total loss to imagine a practical way to/snip/
get people out of the upper stories of a burning skyscraper
Hugh Haskell