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A summons was issued to the building's owner for failure to have a required fire escape.
Records showed that the building's original plans required fire retardant materials on the porch ceiling and that a planned barrier wall in the attic was abandoned during construction.
A report on an inspection of Tazreen Fashions, conducted in May 2011, found that the factory had only 30 of the 66 required fire extinguishers.
"This can save you a protracted argument with the building control officer over the extent of the required fire safety works – and, more importantly, save your life in the event of a fire," says Derry.
He also notes the existence at the time of safety devices and procedures that could have saved the workers -- enclosed fireproof stairways, firewalls, fire doors, automatic sprinklers and required fire drills -- but reports that they were used almost nowhere in New York City.
At least to people who came of age in an era when the wholesale destruction of the artifacts of a relationship required fire, it is jarring to find wedged among updates on voice-mail upgrades and Halloween stickers a notice entitled "How to: Disconnect & reconnect your relationship".
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When fires raged through the tent city at Mina one year, they required fire-retardant canvas for all the tents and banned gas canisters.
Some varieties of pine require fire to burst open their cones, releasing their seeds.
An advocacy group called Citizens for Fire Safety later pushed for laws requiring fire retardants in furniture.
But the necessity, cost effectiveness and the potential benefit of requiring fire safety managers are far from certain.
"It's like giving a homeowner cut-rate fire insurance but not requiring fire extinguishers," Jim Kleinschmit of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told me in an interview.
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