At the time, only 16 of the housing authority's high-rises had fire suppression systems ... "If there had been sprinklers throughout the building, those six Minnesotans might still be here ...

a fire broke out on the 14th floor of Cedar-Riverside High Rise, killing five people. The 25-story, 200-unit apartment building was built in 1970 and wasn’t required to have a sprinkler system ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A sprinkler system helped contain a fire near the top floor of a Rockford high-rise apartment building on Monday night. Around 7:37 p.m., firefighters were called to ...

High-rise residential buildings pose unique fire safety challenges ... like the one involved in this tragedy, lack fire sprinkler systems due to grandfather clauses in outdated regulations.

only high-rises built in 1980 or after require a sprinkler system, according to MPR News. San Jose requires all high-rise buildings have sprinklers. San Diego also once had this requirement ...

Apartment owners and residents protested outside City Hall against a Council bill that would mandate automatic sprinklers systems in high-rise buildings ahead of a City Council session on March 16, ...

This is especially true in high-rise buildings. On February 18th ... in a building equipped with a properly operating fire sprinkler system…never! American has a fire problem, we have the ...

The department says the sprinkler system helped the fire until firefighters ... says a sprinkler was key to containing a fire in a high-rise building.The DMFD released photos of the damage on ...

It’s been six yers since a fire tore through the 36-story Marco Polo condominium on Kapi‘olani Boulevard in Honolulu, killing four people. That tragedy prompted a new local ordinance requiring ...