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I'm so glad this happened, one of these 7-story fire-trap apartment buildings up in flames!
They've been building these fire-trap buildings all over the country, for some time now, and thank God this building was under construction, and not completed and occupied!
The formula for these buildings: first 2 floors with concrete flooring, and after that, up to 5 floors of wooden construction allowed! They've been building any number of these in the L.A. area, and they're all disasters waiting to happen!
I wouldn't live in one these buildings, even if the rent was free!
Our powerful, lobbying lumber companies are behind it all! The advantage with wood: speed! And doesn't haste make waste?
In Mexico, you can't even get insurance on a house, motel, or apartment building built out of wood, it's concrete all the way, and when the Mexicans hear of a "disaster" like this, they laugh and laugh and laugh at our insanity!
Hopefully, with this "life-saving" occurrence, this may put a stop to this madness, and save the lives any number of people!
On SkyscraperPage.com, it gives you the opportunities to see what construction is going on in any city in the world, proposals, buildings under construction, and I've been following these developments for 2 years now, this popular form of construction going on everywhere in this country!
You have the ground floor concrete pad, then a concrete pad for the first floor, sometimes the 2nd floor, and from there on up, you can tack on 3-4-5 floors of wooden construction. They're deemed safe to live in with fire safeguards?
As fearful as I am about being in a fire, there's no way I'd rent an apartment on the 6th/7th floor of one of these buildings!
I apologize for the ineptitude of my providing Links. I've never been good at it, and envy those that can do it so easily!
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What may come out of this, is people who will now have 2nd thoughts about moving into these multi-story wooden apartment buildings arising throughout the country! I have noticed, though, in some parts of the country, even with the concrete pads, only 3-4 stories of wooden construction is allowed to be added, unlike which is now permitted in the L.A. area!
I guess it would behoove someone apartment/condominium hunting to inquire as to the construction of the building. I wouldn't want to live in that tinderbox.
Actually I would be must more concerned about the story also that came out the last few days about the effect that a major earthquake will have on Los Angeles.
Actually I would be must more concerned about the story also that came out the last few days about the effect that a major earthquake will have on Los Angeles.
Why? I think in the "current events" forum one should expect that people are paying attention to the news. Always having to cite everything is a waste of time. I rarely click on links and if I want to check anything I know how to google what I need to find. Or am I supposed to assume everybody else can't perform a simple search of the Internet?
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They've been building any number of these in the L.A. area, and they're all disasters waiting to happen!
