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Originally Posted by golfnutt
Relying on a human. Amazing that logic passed. Thousands of lives rely on a hotel employee being able to extinguish a fire with an extinguisher. Fires (duh) can explode in seconds if they get near combustible material.
The law of course changed. After needless lives lost and hundreds of millions in payments.
An excerpt from the MGM Grand Fire investigation report:
The room of origin was that room identified as the Deli (see Diagram A, Section VI). The Deli was one of five restaurants located on the casino level, and was situated in the center of the three restaurants on the east end of the casino.
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The Deli was not sprinklered; heat and smoke detectors were not present. At the incipient stage of this fire, the Deli was prepared for regular business hours, which would have commenced at 0800 hours on November 21, 1980. This was not a 24-hour restaurant, as was the Orleans Coffee Shop directly to the north.
NOTE: The Orleans Coffee Shop was not sprinklered; however, the Barrymore Room (the restaurant immediately to the south of the Deli) was sprinklered.
The normal hours of business for the Deli were from 0800 to 0100 hours, a total of 17 hours of each 24 hours. Typically, the restaurant was cleaned and prepared for its next day of business upon closing time. To the knowledge of the O/Rs, no person(s) were in this room between the hours of 0100 and 0630, except Mr. John Dodge.