Motell Fire in Cambridge Highlights Building Code Gaps
Ohio safety officials say current law and the Ohio Building Code would not have reduced the Cambridge motel fire toll. Enclosed stairwells might have kept smoke on the first floor, potentially saving nine lives. most victims died from thick black smoke after jumping from second-story windows. Officials note no automatic sprinklers are required in public accommodations and current flame spread rules may not have applied if renovations occurred since seven years ago.
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Columbus
Ohio
UPI
Creann
Cambridge
Jerald E. Bruce
Division of
State Department of Industrial Relations
Bruce
Holiday Inn
Guernsey County
Helen W. Evans
Department of Industrial Relations
Beverly Hills
Southgate
House
Ways and Means
Martin
Fire may bring new laws in Ohio building safety
The Holiday Inn fire that killed nine and injured 78 could push passage of a state requirement for automatic sprinklers or smoke detectors in public buildings. The measure, urged by Rep. Paul R. Leonard, died in the Ohio General Assembly more than two years ago after the Beverly Hills Supper Club disaster.
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UPI
Cambridge
Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House
Paul R. Leonard
Dayton
Southgate
Leonard
Guernsey County
Threeman
Clifton Skeen
Dakron
Corwin M. Nixon
Lebanon
House
Ways and Means
Holiday Inn
General Assembly
Vernal G. Riffe Jr
New
Boston
William E. Hinig
Philadelphia
Ways and Means Committee
Hinig
Ohio Hotel & Motel Association
One Man's Bravery in Ohio Hotel Fire
Jeanette Riddle credits her boss Larry Flowers with saving her life during a Holiday Inn fire near Cambridge Ohio. Flowers crawled through smoke and, after two failed window breaks, smashed a glass wall to pull Riddle to safety. He was treated for arm cuts and singed eyebrows. The blaze killed nine and injured 78, with a prior plan for sprinkler mandates debated in the Ohio legislature. Flowers and Riddle were en route from Shipshewana Indiana to Charlestown West Virginia when the incident occurred Memorial Day weekend.
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Cambridge, Ohio
UPI
Jeanette Riddle
Ms. Riddle
Larry Flowers
Cromwell
Ind
Ohio City
Flowers
Charlestown
W.va
Shipshewana
Guernsey Memorial Hospital
Navy personnel notes from New London area
Lloyd Skillicorn a navy operations seaman from New London returns from deployment in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans aboard USS Cochrane based in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Steven Ball of New London joins the Air Force in Cleveland and heads to Jackland AFB Texas for basic training August 14. Navy Hospitalman Recruit Tanya Olds daughter of Ronald and Joanne Olds graduates from Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes Illinois after ten weeks and joined the Navy in February 1979.
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New London
South Pacific
Indian Oceans
Skillicorn
Robert W. Skillicorn
Cochrane
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Navy
Steven Ball
United States Air Force
Cleveland
Ball
St. Paul High School
Jackland Air Force Base
Tex
Tanya Olds
Ronald
Joanne Olds
Zenobia Road
Hospital Corps School
Great Lakes
Ill
Ms. Olds
Western Reserve High School
Injured Listed In Holiday Inn Fire Victims
Guernsey Memorial Hospital released a list of 18 people admitted to three area hospitals after the Tuesday Holiday Inn motel fire in Cambridge. Individuals include Jacqueline Harbegger of Indianapolis in critical condition for smoke inhalation and Mary Beth Anderson of Indianapolis with lacerations, among others from Ohio Indiana Virginia Missouri Kentucky and Ohio towns.
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Cambridge, Ohio
Jacqueline Harbegger
Indianapolis
Mary Beth Anderson
Norwalk teen charged after crash in Monroeville yard
Glen A. Hadley aged 17 of 243 Woodlawn Ave was cited Tuesday night for leaving the scene after his car struck a tree in the yard of Norman Smith on Halfway Road Monroeville. He was southbound on Halfway when he pulled into a private driveway and backed onto the road, accelerating before losing control and hitting the tree.
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Norwalk
Monroeville
Glen A. Hadley
Woodlawn Ave
Halfway Road
U.S. 20
Norman Smith
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