HIDDEN FIRE AND COLLAPSE
In my last column (August 1995), I discussed the deaths of four firefighters who possibly may have been saved if there had been proper preplanning. In the Seattle tragedy,1 summarized below, it is most likely that preplanning at the level carried out by most fire departments would not have uncovered the alteration in the structure responsible for four fatalities when the floor on which they had been working collapsed into the basement raging with fire. Additions had been made to the 95-year-o