Show fire Safety if in our one of the poorest pieces of in recent years was bill which takes away I the authority of the State Fire Marshal to enforce the state building code in public The schools j will have their own fire inspecting THERE WILL still be fire and there will still be standards for schools to meet for fire but u this is a potentially dangerous situation which we have decried before and will continue to call a flagrant example of a legislature bowing to special interest K- When any branch of government is allowed to police there is the possibility of and this possibility should be eliminated wherever it crops OF COURSE it is inconvenient expensive occasionally and frustrating always to have to but everyone else has to do why should the State Board of Education be any There have been instances in the recent past where expensive alterations of new schools under construction i were forced by the State Fire and it is probably this type of annoyance the Board of Edu- cation was seeking to eliminate by wriggling out from under the Fire Marshal's THE RECENT tragedy at the Lil Haven Nursing J Home should highlight the possibility for fire disaster which will always We first became aware of this new law when we S questioned the use of the old Union Building at West f High as a classroom long after we had heard the build-jt was TO the Fire Department brought the off-mf the-cuff statement that if the Fire Department had the Ir they would have condemned the 1 but they did not have the authority and it was still i being used as a The Union Building has 3 been torn down so that argument has become The is still very much to the p The State School has found the restrictions requirements of the State Building Code sufficiently galling to cause them to exert sufficient pressure upon the legislature to have schools taken out from under the requirements of the State Building Just which re-I II of that building code have caused the THERE IS an old statement are bound by the laws you which we think applies in this I In other if the State Board of Education had 1 been complying with the State Building they would I not have been bothered by that Where they do not abide by the provisions of the code is where the irritation K 1 And it is precisely there that the danger How can we be sure the schools are really fire safe if the I Board of Education has power to spell for their j own just what safety 1 WE ARE not saying our schools present any fire m We are not competent to judge just what a fire but we question whether schools are experts in this matter J We believe this might well be a matter for Parent Teacher Association to delve This might be a to be investigated by civic and it should be of sufficient interest for parents to call their state THERE WILL be another year elapse before this dangerous law can be taken off the books and the schools put back under supervision of the experts in j toe which is time enough for concerned to let their sentiments be expressed where it I will do the most i- Of all institutions in the state to be exempt from toe inspection by the fire department why would it be the |