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This is a new thing? If it is, it's long overdue. Isn't MOST student housing sprinklered?
All residential buildings in Rhode Island housing more than one family had to be sprinklered more than 20 years ago. That included all dormitories, fraternity houses, and old age homes--on school had a terrible dorm fire one year that killed 16 people, triggering this state legislation, which was eventually extended to cover social clubs and meeting halls. Occasionally, buildings were grandfathered in--which is what happened to the club that burned down in February. All of the dorms at my school were sprinklered--when I was a Resident Counselor, the fire marshal came in to give us a talk--and at the time (2000), we were the only college in Rhode Island to have had all of the dorms retrofitted with sprinklers. Now, they all are.
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