The excuses for the cause of the fire keep changing. I doubt it will be true when they settle on a good story that excuses the socialist system.
Most “low income” tenants (especially from third world countries) have no respect for safety. They routinely remove batteries from smoke detectors, clip the hardwired ones and prop fire doors open for the sake of convenience.
I don’t get how a space heater starts a fire if it’s on a circuit breaker, but what do I know?
Someone smoking in bed? Only one of 7 smoke detectors working? High rise apartments with inadequate means of emergency egress available? Folks better get used to it. Looks like the commie high rises Mrs rktman saw in Armenia. Guess where brandon and his ilk want most people? Controllable in city centers. Cars? Meh. Peons don’t need and can’t afford those. Take your solar bus the govt store to be issued your “needs”.
I used Google maps to get a street view of this place.
One thing I noticed right away as a native NYer was that all adjoining buildings had fire escapes.
I’ve only seen exactly what is written here in the newspaper accounts. What has changed?
One of the issues in fires today is the amount of plastic materials in homes and apartments. That means rooms become fully engulfed in flames much, much faster.
In the past firefighter heart attacks were blamed on medical conditions. Now we know the hydrogen cyanide from burning plastic cause a collapse that’s been misinterpreted as a heart attack.
In case of a fire in a home furnished with modern materials your only chance of survival even if no smoke is visible is an immediate exit. The invisible gases will kill you before smoke is apparent.
The video of the UL test at the link shows the danger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNPhq5ggoE
My 1st thought was “How do you get to build a high-rise apartment building in NYC without sprinklers?” Not to say there weren’t, but I haven’t seen a single mention of them.