Hockeytown wrote: "You refuse to see the point.....If the fire started in a parking lot it would have had to burn through walls to get to any sprinkler alarm system unless it was outside therefore a sprinkler system probably wouldn't have done much good."
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I disagree with you Hockeytown, in Annie Zak's companion piece she writes, "If the Royal Suite Apartments had sprinklers, Hill said, 'we probably would not have had the injuries and fatalities that we had.'"  The Hill Zak is quoting is Anchorage Fire Marshal Cleo Hill.
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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2017/02/15/inspections-show-alarm-system-had-been-up-to-code-at-fire-destroyed-building/