John, The distinction here seems to be the "curtain," not the fire load associated with papier mache and wooden props. Load it up with papier mache trees, paper corn stalks, and a log cabin for the Tom Turkey Thanksgiving Spectacular, and remove the curtain and it's a platform. If I expostulate from a raised platform, in my case about six inches, and I pull down the movie screen to show a video of a movie screen burning up does that make the platform a stage? What if I don't expostulate from a raised platform and I pull down the movie screen to show a video of a movie screen burning up? What about an office with curtains over the windows? What if I put a raised platform along the wall under the window? What if my "platform" is a long table that I sit on to address the people in the room--perhaps read from Shakespeare? What about hospital curtain partitions? no platform but what's the fire load difference in all these scenarios? I can't see a raised piece of floor of such small size, all by itself, regardless of what it's used for (except maybe for pyro-technics like the platform without a curtain at the Station Nightclub) creating such a significant change in hazard as to change from LH to OH2.
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