tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post5554596053737143659..comments2023-09-16T04:58:07.261-04:00Comments on the Annandale Blog: High-rise fire in Bailey's Crossroads displaces six Annandale Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543558586252790593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-77159881098106000252017-01-05T15:19:16.443-05:002017-01-05T15:19:16.443-05:00Skyline has turned into a vertical slum. This is w...Skyline has turned into a vertical slum. This is what happens in buildings with low income and uninterested landlords and county officials to make sure that the area's housing stock is safe. The ghettoizing of this area is now in hyperdrive. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-25082033257776295012017-01-04T15:03:37.690-05:002017-01-04T15:03:37.690-05:00Unfortunately these buildings are from before inte...Unfortunately these buildings are from before integrated sprinklers were required. They are from the early 70s. Additionally, smoke detectors are the responsibility of individual unit owners/tenants.<br /><br />The one saving grace of the construction format is the cement slabs that form every floor prevented the fire from reaching other floors. It spread to the 26th floor only because the heat burst out several windows of the 25th floor unit, and the flames grew so high they reached the 26th floor and burst a window there then spread inside the room.<br />The good news is nobody was injured in the blaze, tenants and firefighters alike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-62681703299213366552017-01-04T11:51:30.250-05:002017-01-04T11:51:30.250-05:00Yikes. You are really putting your life in other p...Yikes. You are really putting your life in other peoples' hands when you live in close quarters like this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-26149993733962078382017-01-03T23:39:05.213-05:002017-01-03T23:39:05.213-05:00^^ My thoughts, exactly! ^^ My thoughts, exactly! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-4214336080186532292017-01-03T11:36:36.920-05:002017-01-03T11:36:36.920-05:00"there were no smoke detectors" what?!?!..."there were no smoke detectors" what?!?! in a high rise I would have expected not only smoke detectors, but an integrated building-wide fire panel and sprinkler system. surely these buildings aren't THAT antiquated that they were built before code required that? They are death traps without it!Jeff Longohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14800609058016605285noreply@blogger.com