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Originally posted by Coramoor
I'm talking about the city as a whole. Most of the structures within city limits are student housing, with enough students living in them that they would probably also have to comply with the fire codes.
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Not according to the article in the Ames case.
"Petersen said he is proposing that Greek houses install sprinklers, rather than landlords for student apartments, in part because fire calls have historically gone to Greek houses after parties.
"We've seen a correlation between the use of alcohol — the misuse of alcohol — and fires in Greek houses," Petersen said."
Petersen is the Ames Fire Chief.
I suspect most "college towns" are in the same situation in terms of a large percentage of houses being rental student housing. It certainly was and is true in Athens where I went to school.
In addition to the posts above, though, I remember the fire just off the Ohio State campus in private housing where three Alpha Gams from my alma mater, Ohio University, were killed. It's a tough situation, but paraphrasing the article again, there's a reason private homes don't have sprinklers -- and that's cost.
But how do you put a cost on a human life?