r/LosAngeles • u/2fast2nick Downtown • 1d ago

Fire Morrison Hotel, the day after

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u/2fast2nick Downtown 1d ago

I think it takes arson investigators more than 12 hours to figure out.. but my guess, it was full of homeless people, building has no utilities, it’s been freezing cold. Soo

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u/programaticallycat5e 1d ago

unrelated, but are fire sprinklers not passive systems?

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u/uiuctodd 1d ago

Sprinklers laws for commercial buildings were just becoming a thing in the 1960s when this place was already the run-down SRO shown on the Doors album.

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u/2fast2nick Downtown 1d ago

I can guarantee you they have not retrofitted every building since the 1960's. Also, I don't know what the rule is, but if you don't pay utilities anymore, is your fire sprinklers still charged? I don't know if that is part of water or what.