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My June “The Ol’ Professor” column on the important subject of combustible metal deck roofs (CMDR) contained for the first time a method of preplanning for a CMDR-namely, to survey buildings with steel bar joists and a steel roof to determine if there is a so-called “built-up” roof. The last endnote asked you to let me know if you have done anything about this and, if not, why. So far, I have heard nothing.
Must we have a page full of fatalities? This is what it took to get the fire service to appreciate the hazard of lightweight wood trusses, which I had laid out in 1971 in the first edition of Building Construction for the Fire Service.
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