Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME quoted TV Director John Frankenheimer as he directed a Playhouse go scene set in a police station: "...The ceiling is too beautiful. I want it cruddy. Put sprinklers in it." We feel that this is offensive. The automatic sprinkler industry has done an outstanding job over the years of saving billions of dollars in American property and has saved countless lives from death by fire. Automatic sprinklers do not produce a "cruddy" appearance any more than radiators, light fixtures or electrical devices...
RAYMOND J. CASEY National Automatic Sprinkler and Fire Control Association New York City...
...blaze was set on top of 12,000 pounds of unused paper by a person or persons who entered a side door into a basement folding room in the 14 Plympton St. building. Most of the damage resulted from water poured on the burning paper by firemen and a sprinkler system...
...Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children on all floors with no other means of escape...
...firemen noted that "furniture, clothing, flooring, and door-casing" were destroyed. One of the men remarked that "if it had not been for the sprinkler going off, probably the whole building would have gone." As usual, an entire engine company, consisting of three engines and two ladder trucks, was sent...