Globe editorial: Sprinkler systems needed

Today's Joplin Globe features an editorial favoring bills proposed by Rep. Kevin Wilson, R-Neosho, and Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles to require that sprinkler systems be installed at group homes.
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.