Council Orders Report on Sprinkler Installation
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday ordered its Public Safety Committee to complete a report within 30 days examining the financial impact of installing fire sprinklers in residential high-rise buildings. The action was requested by Councilman Nate Holden, who has charged that the committee has stalled a motion he authored in 1988 calling for a residential sprinkler ordinance.
“I don’t think they should stall any more,” said Holden, who wants to speed the matter out of committee and onto the council floor. “The need for fire sprinklers in these buildings was recently dramatized by the loss of two lives, and that is shameful.”
Holden was referring to a Century City condominium fire on Tuesday that killed two people and injured seven.
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