SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL IN SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, has recently been expanded with new classrooms, but without the required fire safety measures that the state law calls for.
New Haven tv station WTNH did an earlier report on this and the school officials seem to be running from the problem instead of addressing them. Specifically, the new addition has several classrooms without windows or any emergency egress to the outside. Code calls for these areas to be sprinklered. But Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti tried to downplay the shortcoming and stated: “I do know there are very few incidents that occur in a building like that. There is not much that can burn other than paper and people, some electrical components. Fortunately we have dodged any bullet that may have come in that regard.”
You can imagine how the townfolk took to that excuse. The high school building committee and the architect claim that there is no legal requirement for the sprinklers. But the man who wrote the State Fire Code just happens to be neighboring Milford’s Fire Marshal and he shows that they are very much mistaken in this WTNH video report:
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