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Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, meanwhile, had another big, related problem. One of the mayor's first postfire acts was to appoint a panel to determine why a six-year-old exhibition hall that had been built to outlast the Colosseum had no sprinkler systems or fire walls, and had burned down. Wondering also were such insurance companies as Travelers, Continental, and Interstate Fire & Casualty, who had written $29,650,000 worth of insurance on McCormick Place on the say-so of their own inspectors, who estimated its maximum probable fire loss at less than...
...automatic sprinkler system opened up, spraying curtains of water into the lower-deck compartments. But the magnesium-fed fire continued to burn, turning sections of the flight deck above into a sizzling skillet. Choking clouds of dense, dirty-grey smoke poured through seven decks of the Oriskany's forward sections. Two more blasts sent flames belching along the flight deck, where red-shirted ordnance experts worked feverishly to jettison 500-lb., 1,000-lb.and 2,000-lb. bombs they dumped dozens overboard into...
...ruptured sprinkler pipe set fire alarms blaring throughout Thayer Hall at 1 a.m. Sunday morning. The break, over a stairway in the south entry, lowered the water pressure until the alarms sounded automatically. The pressure then built up again and the alarms stopped, and started, and stopped, and started...
...potting shed, can cost about $20,000. Automatic controls, available even in $1,200 models, are largely responsible for the newly broadened market; they enable owners to go off on vacation confident that proper heat, ventilation and humidity will be maintained by gadgetry that can turn on the sprinkler system, raise and lower vents, switch on the lights at night. When the owners return, they can simply walk in and start weeding...
...their place, "modern safety features" have been installed: sprinkler systems in the older dormitories, smoke screens (doors to prevent the spread of smoke to other parts of the building) in a number of dormitory corridors, and, in some off-campus houses, fire ladders to several of the corner rooms...