Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
While I was home from college, one summer night I noticed a two-story downtown building (with low-rent apartments upstairs) had a fire on the ground floor. The firetruck arrived within minutes. A few minutes later a fireman brought the body of a 13-yo boy downstairs from the second floor. He was laid out on the ground.<p>No sprinkler system on any floor. The second floor had one fire escape, but it probably wouldn't have helped - the youngster was completely unburned but dead of smoke asphyxiation.  Never to be forgotten.