Excellent article, but I think it's not fair for the City to require apartment buildings to have sprinklers when there is no similar requirement for individual homes.  As far as I know, there isn't even a requirement to have fire alarms in individual homes.  Look at the latest house fire that happened this past weekend in East Honolulu.  It burned the home where the fire started and spread to neighboring homes as well.  Fires like this spread to multiple homes significantly more often than multiple apartment buildings within the same structure.  Where is the call from HPD and the Mayor to require sprinklers to be installed on all new homes being built and to retrofit them onto existing homes?