Such a system could have saved some or all of the 11 lives lost during the Nov. 27 fire at the Anderson Guest House:
The tragedy of the Anderson blaze is that if Anderson firefighters had been alerted even a few minutes earlier, lives might have been saved. For that to have happened, though, the fire detection system would have had to have been connected directly to the Fire Department.
Instead, according to Anderson Mayor Bob Corcoran, the alarm was sounded “by a 12-year-old girl who was standing across the street.” She heard people screaming and told her mother, who then called the fire department.
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Bold decision. Wow, couldn't see that coming. This coming from the paper that finally endorsed floridation 30 years late. What's next? Will they take an anti-child abuse stance? Can we expect to read that it's bad to bring guns to school? Brave choices from the Globe editorial chairs.
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Quote courtesy "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks.
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