Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, new buildings are made of more fire-resistant materials. More recent Harvard buildings use less wood and more steel. Some feature automated sprinkler systems. Rooms in others have access to two regular staircases...
According to Reardon, assistant sexton Gabe Paccio discovered the fire when he saw black smoke at the ceiling of the church and noticed flooding caused by the attic's sprinkler system. Paccio then shut down the electricity system and attempted to shut off the church's two sprinkler systems...
...sprinkler system caused most of the damage, flooding the plaster walls and ceiling of the church, Reardon said...
Construction crews are replacing the existingsix-inch line with a 12-inch line. The extracapacity is necessary, Hawkes said, in partbecause new sprinkler systems installed thissummer will increase the flow of water to thedorms. The iron pipes are also prone to chemicalreactions underground, and tend to build up crustover time, Hawkes said...
...spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a 10 foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarms and drew three fire engines...