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FIRE SAFETY: WORDS VS. ACTIONS - Galyean
Galyean BUDGET LINEFIRE SAFETY: WORDS VS. ACTIONS: The 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center demonstrated several fatal flaws in fire safety and evacuation procedures in the buildings. Many of these had already been identified in a Congressional report issued in 1995 following the 1993 WTC bombing. Of the nineteen recommendations made in the 1995 report, only a handful were implemented by 2001. The local real estate lobby was largely opposed to most of the safety revisions due to both immediate costs and the potential of lost rental revenue (if floor space was dedicated to escape routes, additional stairwells, etc.).Why were so few of the 1995 recommendations implemented in the WTC and in the subsequent NYC fire safety codes? Is there reasonable evidence to suggest that implementing some of the other recommendations would have saved lives in the 2001 attacks? How is the response to the 2005 report on the 2001 catastrophe following the same pattern?
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