Codes, Scrutiny, Technology Key to Club Safety. Mitchell Landsberg and Ken Ellingwood.
by Landsberg, Mitchell; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 28Environment. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Building inspectors | Building laws | Fire prevention | Fire sprinklers | Fires | Music-halls (Variety-theaters | Safety regulationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "There have always been risks associated with nightclubs, from brawls to drunken shootouts. Fire has been an ever-present danger. But in recent years, a combination of stringent fire codes, stricter enforcement and improved technology has dramatically reduced the number, and the severity, of nightclub fires. No fire code can protect a club from the unauthorized use of fireworks, such as the display that appears to have caused the Thursday [Feb. 20, 2003] fire in West Warwick, R.I., that has killed 96 people." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article notes that strict enforcement "can minimize the likelihood that clubs will break the law, and fire safety equipment such as sprinklers--which didn't exist in the West Warwick club--can minimize the risk when a fire does start."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Codes, Scrutiny, Technology Key to Club Safety, Feb. 22, 2003; pp. A20.
"There have always been risks associated with nightclubs, from brawls to drunken shootouts. Fire has been an ever-present danger. But in recent years, a combination of stringent fire codes, stricter enforcement and improved technology has dramatically reduced the number, and the severity, of nightclub fires. No fire code can protect a club from the unauthorized use of fireworks, such as the display that appears to have caused the Thursday [Feb. 20, 2003] fire in West Warwick, R.I., that has killed 96 people." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article notes that strict enforcement "can minimize the likelihood that clubs will break the law, and fire safety equipment such as sprinklers--which didn't exist in the West Warwick club--can minimize the risk when a fire does start."
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