Why is the Sugar House complex that caught fire still burning?
The way the north wing collapsed “like 9/11″ is contributing to continual smoke, said a fire captain.
The building’s Salt Lake City developers, the Lowe Property Group, intend to “rebuild the property as it was designed,” a California-based spokesperson said in an email early Thursday. The north wing burned before largely falling in on itself in a way that was “very similar to 9/11,” Mumedy said. “You just have a collapse of a structure, and then there’s just this dense pile of debris, and it just continues to smolder for a long time.”
In general, buildings that are under construction are “absolutely” at greater risk of burning, the captain said. A lot of that is because partially constructed buildings often do not have fire protections in place, such as sprinklers, or the fire hydrant out front isn’t connected yet.
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