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>But you can have have stricter building code to help minimize the destruction. I believe such building guide lines are in place in areas like Los Angeles and San Fran.
Yes, the lack of that is frequently a problem. I remember a few months (?) ago, in the Ycuá Bolaños case (Asunción, Paraguay - 400 people died in a fire), that the supermarket in question hadn't complied with certain building codes - and the city government, of course, hadn't enforced them. AFTER the problem they started to worry about other supermarkets, and promised to look after the situation. I think the main issue with the building codes was the lack of emergency exits.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
