Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Museum, one of 48 sprinkler-equipped buildings, is checked four times weekly by the Patrol. The extra attention, Husk and Fraser explain, is because the building is not fireproof Fogg Museum, housing many valuable objets d'art that would suffer almost as much from water as from fire, is protected by carbon dioxide...
...were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas, for the first time in years, hospital authorities had decided against having a lighted Christmas tree in the corridor of the mental ward. Reason: they feared a fire...