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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Actual Savings

We all know that for a waste-basket fire extinguished on a marble floor inside a sprinklered mall one can't claim with a straight face that the entire $100 million mall was saved unless there were some highly unusual circumstances. But put the waste basket in the corner of someone's living room, with flames impinging on drapes or an upholstered chair, and one can credibly claim that extinguishing the fire at that point would save the entire house and possibly the people in it. If the fire were in one of several connected row houses, one might even claim ...

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