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Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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Cuntellectual posted:

While fire safety inspections aren't meant for people actively trying to kill people, I'd thought from the pictures I'd seen that there weren't any fire escapes or the like, not that they were blocked?

The standard for fire safety in many countries is that the main entrances/exits *are* the fire escapes. The principle is that those areas can be fireproofed and made safe for large numbers of people to get out safely.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/good-egress/

Unless some murderous fucker sprays gasoline over the area.

Fangz fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Jul 21, 2019

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Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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Why is the roof access relevant to the fire code at all, you aren't supposed to climb on to the roof when there's a fire. A fire code isn't a terrorist attack preparedness test.

Fangz fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jul 22, 2019

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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chumbler posted:

I assume it should still probably not be locked in an emergency or be difficult to open. It's not a great place to go, but if other exits are blocked (which can occur for reasons other than a murderer) it should still be an option. Anywhere is better than inside a burning building.

It's not an exit though. In a normal fire, going up to the roof is asking to be trapped up there and greatly increases your chances of death. The fire code is about whether there's safe routes of egress during normal fires. It's about whether the normal exits *can* become blocked.

EDIT: As a fire steward at the university I work at, the roof access is absolutely locked 99% of the time (I'm pretty sure health and safety law practically mandates it, because if some idiot goes up there and trips and falls off, the university is liable) and gently caress knows what we'd do if there's a similar attack. The building is bigger and harder to set fire to, I guess.

Due to the nature of carbon monoxide poisoning the victims probably would have died even if they made it on to the roof.

Fangz fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jul 22, 2019

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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https://twitter.com/CasReadman/status/1153163341143138304

https://twitter.com/ultimatemegax/status/1153143258698137600

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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https://twitter.com/soukatsu_/status/1153329924914262016

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Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

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Spiritus Nox posted:

Hard to say how much of it will still be usable for future projects - character designs meant to be overseen by anyone who's passed away might need to be redone, for instance, or stuff that was designed to be used in context with other material that wasn't scanned before the fire - but at the very least that's a huge relief for animation history.

IIRC (from Shirobako...) this is a big deal because an animation studio's archives are an important resource as references for training new animators.

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