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Show Thursday, January 24, 1980 Input Session if ft A much slimmer Bob Hutchins is on crutches, but alive and kicking after car wreck. 'It's Good To Be Back Home Prospector Square Hotel President Bob Hutchins returned re-turned to Park City Monday, 35 days after entering Cottonwood Cot-tonwood Hospital following a single car smash-up in which he sustained serious internal injuries and a broken back. Weighing some 30 pounds less than before his accident and wearing a hip-to-shoulder body cast, Hutchins appeared to be in good spirits. "It's good to be back home," he said. "I'll be house-ridden for about three weeks, then I'll be able- feSnd a full recovery with no venture outside for walks. The body cast will come off in about two months." It was Dec. 17 when Hutchins' brand new Toyota Supra sailed off the freeway intersection between the Cottonwood Cot-tonwood exit and Wasatch Blvd., crashing 40 feet down the gully where "The Climb- MOTHER KAREN'S NIGHT WITH THE JAZZ Tuesday February 5 . . Utah Jazz vs. nicago dims Purchase a Mother Karen's product at your favorite Mother Karen's dealer and receive a coupon good for a free ticket to the Jazz game. February 5. Offer is limited pending the availability of tickets. Details at your favorite Mother Karen's dealer. Ubar your Mother Karen's to the game and b eligible for prizes 8:307:00 pm Daily ing Rock" is' located. The accident demolished the car. "I feel very, very fortunate that everything came out as good as it did," the property manager affirmed. "For a while it was real touch and go. If I hadn't been wearing the seat belt I'd be dead." Hutchins underwent several operations, including fusion fu-sion of some vertebrae. Doctors were concerned there could be motor nerve impairment, but the opera tions proved to be successful permanent damage is expected. ex-pected. Hutchins has set up an office in his Prospector Park home to keep in touch with his property management business. But, he added, his real primary business right now is concentrating on his recovery. 7:30 Salt Palace rn 628 Park Ave 649-9712 Opinions Sought On Sprinkler Law A public input session will be held at the City Council's Feb. 21 meeting to hear comments regarding a proposal pro-posal to adopt a sprinkler ordinance for multi-story or greater than four unit buildings build-ings to aid fire prevention in Park City. The proposed ordinance was recommended by resident resi-dent Ira Sachs, who said he is a concerned citizen and "this is a motherhood and apple pie issue." Sachs said he suggested the ordinance apply to two- or more story buildings and-or greater than four unit buildings build-ings because fire hazard increases with increased use and physical dimension. He suggested developers use Class A codes, which specify steel, concrete or brick construction. At last Thursday's City Council meeting, Mayor Jack Green commended Sachs on his recommendation recommenda-tion and noted he already had met with two deputy state fire marshals and a fire insurance representative. The mayor said he discussed the pros and cons of such an ordinance with the fire marshals, and suggested an input session be held Feb. 21. Green further commented the fire marshals did not believe Class A construction necessarily better retards a fire. "In fact," Green said, "I said at least you have the walls still standing, and they said, no, the report probably would read the walls collapsed col-lapsed and killed a fireman." fire-man." Sachs said the intent of the ordinance "would be to go back on a lot of the construction construc-tion already built and influence in-fluence developers to perhaps per-haps save lives and install sprinklers, alarms, anything. any-thing. The first step is to stop it now so it won't happen any more, then go back." He remarked the City Council might suggest to the Planning Plann-ing Commission not to approve ap-prove any projects over two stories or with greater than four units until the ordinance has been discussed, and hopefully, adopted. Green said there was the possibility that, if adopted Ill agMMMHswHMiHiitfHSMSMiiasriNm BREAKFAST Open Daily DINNER 8:00-1 1:00 a.m. from5:OOp.m. At the Resort Plaza 649-7778 developers would be required re-quired to install sprinkler systems, with possibly a five-year period to comply. One state fire marshall told Green on the east coast, planning commission's have created incentives for installing in-stalling sprinklers by allowing allow-ing greater densities than normally would be considered. consi-dered. "There are a good many things to look at in this area," Green said, "and we commend you for your interest and concern." On Tuesday, newly-appointed City Councilman Tom Shellenberger, a past member of the Park City Fire Commission and currently cur-rently an emergency medical medi-cal technician, fully supported sup-ported such an ordinance. "I sure would support a sprinkler ordinance and anything any-thing that would help prevent pre-vent fires in Park City," Shellenberger said. The councilman noted that Park City has adopted both the Uniform Building Code and the Uniform Fire Code, which outline fire safety features required in certain buildings. "But we're talking about something more strict," Shellenberger remarked. re-marked. The councilman blamed most of Park City's fires on new construction, where wood buildings have not been sheetrocked, or are not completed being sheet-rocked. sheet-rocked. , ,,','Even ; if. we had ;a paid, ; full-time fire department " and we were on the scene two minutes after a fire like the Snowflower or Jack Johnston Johns-ton eight-plex, it wouldn't have made any difference," Shellenberger said. "The frame construction is a big contributor. But brick can burn just as fast and can even cause more problems by collapsing on firemen. One of the biggest contributors contribu-tors of most development fires recently is new construction con-struction where there is no sheetrocking or it's incompletewhich incom-pletewhich can happen anywhere, not just Park City. "The narrow streets in town don't help but that has not Restaurant Seafood Beef Oyster Bar NOW OPEN FOR BREAKFAST hampered us in the recent past. I don't believe Park City has a worse fire record than other cities, it just seems to get more publicity. What we really need to look at is prevention, and that's where sprinkler systems come in." Shellenberger said sprinklers sprink-lers can be "very effective, even in a major fire." He noted once a fire starts, the sprinklers spray a considerable consider-able amount of water. Usually Usual-ly leaving the firemen with a "mop-up operation." One problem associated with sprinklers, hoWOver, is they can activate when there is no fire, causing extensive water damage. "Sprinklers can be fairly expensive," Shellenberger noted, "but developers usually get better fire insurance in-surance rates. And most developers can pass the cost onto the ultimate buyer. And sprinklers actually can be a sales feature for potential buyers." The councilman said in the case of "normal" fires, where, for instance draperies drape-ries hanging over a heater ignite, sheetrocking can be effective in containing the blaze. "But with arson, where someone throws gas all over then lights a match, sheetrock really wouldn't be a deterrant." Other effective fire prevention preven-tion measures include a-larms, a-larms, which Shellenberger said currently are required in new construction in Park City. In the case of multistory multi-story buildings, developers are being asked to include dry stand pipes. Reasonably priced, Shellenberger said the pipes are a permanent vertical structure running from the ground floor to the top floor of buildings. When firemen arrive, they run the light, empty water hoses to the fire, while the pumper truck hooks up to outlets at each level, then begins pumping when firemen are ready. 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