You are aware that it’s not 1911. Right?
Jerk.
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Yes. For the literate among us, I wrote, "Let's not accept regression and indifference to human life 115 years later."
2026-115=1911
It's far more damning to have a building go up that quickly and completely in 2026 than in 1911.
I get it. You want a boogeyman. So do the building owners and/or operators who are negligent.
Let's be smarter than someone with a cigarette lighter and a stack of paper, and less incompetent or corrupt as the person or people who dropped the ball on the fire suppression systems. Either we engineer the risk out or we're no better than the savages who set it on fire.