Hockeytown wrote: "Except the fire Marshall has said the building was not in violation of the codes it was subject too."
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The fire marshal also said that if the building had sprinklers, nobody would have died.  The law is faulty and should require sprinkler retrofits in older buildings with lots of tenants. Quoting a previous ADN article,  "If the Royal Suite Apartments had sprinklers, Hill [Anchorage Fire Marshal Cleo Hill] said, ,we probably would not have had the injuries and fatalities that we had.'"
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2017/02/15/inspections-show-alarm-system-had-been-up-to-code-at-fire-destroyed-building/