Well, at least it was paper that burned, and not the people mentioned in the article about "the only things in there that can burn are people and paper".....
It would be prudent for all of us to contact our congressmen in DC with a note pushing for installation of fire sprinklers in our schools as a part of the infrastructure investment that the president-elect plans. I believe high-speed internet, HVAC and electrical upgrades to improve efficiency, and similar items are what he intends to spend money on. It would make sense to try to get some of that funding dropped into Life Safety upgrades as well. Mention the Green side of sprinklers, you can avoid the chance for the building to go up in polluting smoke. Anyone subscribing to this Forum should have the savvy to google their congresspeople, and send em an email pushing for including sprinklers. If you don't, we won't get the funding, and we'll have no one but ourselves to blame. And so long as those email addresses are in front of you, you might want to change the topic and send another email protesting the planned signing of the Employee Free Choice Act, wherein the Free Choice of a secret ballot will be taken away from American workers in favor of a card check by union organizers- with no NLRB election. Congress seems concerned we big bad employers are bullying our workers into not signing up with a union. They seem to miss the reality we experienced years ago, when 300 lb gorillas trespassed onto sites and vehicles in an attempt to sway our workers into being represented by their union. When was the last time you read about non-union workers performing acts of violence and intimidation against signatory workers? It's the other way around, and their success rate of representing our construction industry speaks for itself- from 80% of construction in the 1960's to less than 15% of today's construction industry. And let's face it, they still have 15% of the market since the government clings to the prevailing wages from the 1930's in an artificial propping up of their wage rates. Let's face it, Detroit and Pittsburgh are the poster children of what the autoworkers and steelworkers have done to promote a viable industry here in the USA. The last thing we need when trying to compete in a global economy is less efficiency in our labor. glc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Williams Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: another fire - this will be interesting http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_Shelton_High_fire_200812301825 Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
