(07-10-2017 11:04 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  The USA really does do a good job of not building fire traps

Quote:At least three people are confirmed dead, a dozen injured, and five hospitalized -- including a firefighter -- after a five-alarm blaze swept through several floors of a Honolulu high-rise, on Friday.

More than a dozen units at the Marco Polo Apartment Building, along Kapiolani Boulevard, are now heavily damaged, according to the Honolulu Fire Department.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell declared that fire under control a little after 6:30 p.m., Friday evening.

Fire officials say by midnight the blaze was fully extinguished.

Quote:According to Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel Neves, the blaze broke out on the 26th floor and moved upward eventually reaching the 28th floor of the building.

"It's very difficult even with the equipment that we have to make our way to the floor of the fire and the room of the fire," Chief Neves said in a press conference.

Smoke could be seen exiting Marco Polo from both the Mauka and Makai sides of the tower.

Fire officials says a few times this afternoon, even the firefighters had to be evacuated out of the burning building.

One firefighter was treated and transported for heat exhaustion, but has since been released.

Honolulu Fire told Island News that the building only was equip with sprinklers in the garbage chutes.