By making insurance contingent on smoke detectors, insurers cut down on deaths and losses from building fires.
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In May 2002 FEMA concluded that the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building.
Official reports say: A three-year investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that the building collapsed because of uncontrolled fires, started by the collapse of the nearby North Tower, and which burnt for seven hours.
Thousands of people gathered outside the building in the Egyptian capital, chanting and starting fires.
The recent spate of accidents in the garment trade, especially in Bangladesh, where in addition to the building collapse more than 100 have also died in factory fires over the past year has led labor unions and worker-safety groups to press Western retailers to tighten oversight of their supply chains.
The Cambodian incidents follow several more-deadly accidents in Bangladesh, where more than 1, 000 people died in a garment building collapse last month and others have perished in garment factory fires over the past year.
Firefighters also dealt with fires in 15 cars, two containers and a fourth building, the brigade said, while police made eight arrests.
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The deadly apparel-plant fires in Bangladesh last year and last month's building collapse, which killed more than 800 people, revealed safety hazards, labor-rights violations and unauthorized subcontracting of Western brands' orders.
The deadly apparel-plant fires in Bangladesh last year and last month's building collapse, which killed more than 700 people, revealed safety hazards, labor-rights violations and unauthorized subcontracting of Western brands' orders.
Contrast this with the 99% of entrepreneurs who go into work each day without a plan, and subsequently spend their days fighting fires and operating their current business, and not getting any closer to building the business they once envisioned.
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The building collapse represents the third major industrial incident in five months in the country, following two deadly fires last year that killed more than 100 people in total and prompted Western brands to re-examine safety measures.
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