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...JUAN, Puerto Rico--A Dupont Plaza Hotel maintenance worker was arrested yesterday and charged with 96 counts of murder for the New Year's Eve fire at the posh hotel...
...week's end the death toll had reached 95, and at least 106 people were injured. That made the Dupont Plaza inferno the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history, surpassed only by the Winecoff Hotel blaze in Atlanta in 1946, which killed 119. Most of the victims died in the casino, and the rest were found in hallways and rooms on the first four floors...
...contract. The union, which represents 290 of the hotel's 450 employees, had threatened to strike at midnight on Dec. 31 if its demands were not met. On the afternoon of the last day of the year, 200 or so union members met in the Dupont Plaza's ballroom for more than an hour and voted to allow their leaders to call a strike. "The next we know," claimed Attorney Rudy Torruella, the hotel's negotiator, "is that immediately a fire broke out in the ballroom. In attempts to put out the fire by going through the kitchen door...
...capture of arsonists, if indeed arson was involved. Though he acknowledged there had been tensions between union workers and the hotel, that was putting it mildly: since late December, the union had been airing spots on local radio stations urging people to stay away from the Dupont Plaza on New Year's Eve. Cadiz explained that the ads referred merely to a possible curtailment in services at the hotel. He also said that after the ballroom meeting ended, he remained confident that an agreement would be reached by midnight...
...Dupont Plaza had no sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...