In 2018, a year after four people were killed in the blaze at the 35-story Marco Polo, the City Council acted to require that residential high-rises vulnerable to fast-spreading fires be retrofitted with sprinkler systems or provide certain minimum protections.
Condominium associations are lobbying Honolulu City Council Chair Tommy Waters to repeal a law that requires high-rise condos to install costly fire sprinkler systems, prompting Waters to seek input from the Waikiki Neighborhood Board.
Residential high-rise buildings on Oahu that don t have fire sprinkler systems now have about a month and a half left to get a so-called "life safety evaluation" to comply with
especially trained crowd managers, and number one, do a life safety evaluation. so we need to know if the city of houston did a life safety evaluation for that address that would have dealt with festival seating, standing room environments. the victim, the people who died. they re the victims of this disaster. they re the people put into a crowd, into a crowd environment beyond their control. who manages the crowd? not 16-year-old susy, not 18-year-old johnny. the people who organized it. the facility operator, the promoter, the people who approve it. we also need to see the crowd management plan, the emergency plan. and see who was involved in those aspects. that s where you find what went wrong and why it went wrong.