Born and bred in New York City, it wasn’t until artist Tess Elena returned from living abroad in Thailand that she recognized her true love for the big
fire escapes. much of that, not all of it, much of that is going away. that s not because xi jingping had an epiphany. it s because millions and millions of brave chinese went out on the streets and forced them to do that. i m wondering, nick, because those protests that we saw, which is just the fact that we re seeing them is so unusual coming out of china, but with, you know, the holding the blank pieces of paper, it s more than just covid, nick? is it a desire of people to just have freedom and what s the significance of the blank piece of paper? absolutely. so, you know, the initial thing that got people so riled up was the covid lockdowns, it was an incident in which a lockdown may have impeded fire rescuers so that people died in a fire unnecessarily. but more broadly, you know,
many people across the country. this just really is a very tragic situation unfolding in philly. authorities are giving updates as they have them. right now they are trying to get in there to find out how it started. trace: you look at the firefighters ladders going up and see how they are getting access to the building. what you don t know is how the people inside the buildings would get out. we haven t seen the totality of the building itself. if you have firefighters using ladders to get inside you wonder if the victims might have been on the upper floors and wonder how they would have gotten out if there was fire escapes or proper if you don t have fire alarms or detectors that are working, there is a good chance that the escape system in these buildings also wasn t up to date and that becomes a big question is was there a way out if they were even notified that they needed to get out of this building? very, very tough situation there in philadelphia. dana: a good point. if y
now and required to have, for instance, sprinkler systems. the reason you don t see it in public housing is money and there s not the money there to invest or hasn t been. he doesn t expect it to be. is it as simple as that? there s a lack of resources. my understand is the building in question did have a sprinkler system. it was supposed to have self-closing doors. the fire originated from an electric space heater in a duplex on the third tlfloor of 19 floor high-rise. the smoke spread rapidly throughout the building. since they have no fire escapes and since the stairwells were full of smoke, the tenants had no means of escape. most who did die, died from severe smoke inhalation, from cardiac and respiratory arrest.
close as required by law? both the apartment door and the stairwell door were left wide open causing the smoke to spread widely throughout a 19-story building and since the building has no fire escapes and the stairwells were full of smoke, the tenants had no means of escape. the tenants were trapped and victims were found on every floor. there were tenants that died from severe smoke inhalation and cardiac and respiratory arrest. housing conditions have implications for the safety of tenants, especially with fire prevention. this is what investigators are pointing to, a malfunctioning space heater, those self-closing doors that didn t work. are there officials making sure other public housing buildings are safe right now? what should they be doing and what are you doing? it s true the space heaters are a fire hazard and people need to be extraordinarily