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HONOLULU When Moon Yun parents bought a 27th-floor apartment in a high-rise overlooking Waikiki about 15 years ago, they realize the wave-shaped building had no fire sprinklers. even consider Pellerin said. But a week after a massive fire broke out one floor below her apartment, killing three neighbors, Pellerin and her family want installed even if it means spending thousands of dollars. The Marco Polo Apartments were built in 1971, before sprinklers became mandatory for new construction in Honolulu. Despite local efforts to require older buildings to install sprinkler systems, officials estimate about 300 high-rises on Oahu still lack the fire prevention measure.

Across the United States, cities have a mixed bag of laws on whether older high-rise apartment buildings must install fire sprinklers that required when the towers were first built. Many including New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco still have high- rises without the safety measure. Cost is often cited. But after deadly July 14 fire, some question whether financial concerns outweigh the potential for tragedy. a look at how the sprinkler debate is playing out in several U.S.

cities: Honolulu In the aftermath, fire chief said sprinklers would have contained the blaze to the unit where it started, possibly saving the lives of those who died in nearby apartments. Mayor Kirk Caldwell introduced a bill a few days later that would require all high-rises to have sprinklers, even older ones. know what going to take for apartment owners as well as associations to see the value of human said Hawaii state Sen. Glenn Wakai, who plans to introduce legislation offering homeowners incentives to install sprinkler systems. The fire was not the first at the 36-story Marco Polo building and not the first time the question of installing sprinklers has come up.

After a 2013 fire, the association asked an engineering firm for cost estimates to replace the fire alarm system and install sprinklers. The company concluded it would be about $8,000 per unit to install sprinklers, or about for the whole building. Sprinklers were never installed. Wakai first introduced legislation in 2005 after another deadly fire, proposing incentives that would cover 35percent of the cost. But the budget was tight, and the bill ultimately failed after the in- centive was reduced to just 5percent.

San Francisco Apair of deadly 2015 fires in San Francisco prompted city leaders to look at requiring automatic sprinklers in older residential buildings. But the idea faltered after landlords and officials raised concerns about the cost and logistics. sprinklers work know that but the problem is, got these old buildings, and expensive, and going to be resistance on the part of the said Tommi Avicolli Mecca, director of counseling programs at the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. In 1993, San Francisco required that high-rise commercial buildings and tourist hotels be retrofitted with sprinklers, but the mandate excluded residential and historical buildings. Chicago In Chicago, a fire that killed six people at a downtown county govern- ment building in 2003 prompted officials to enact a host of safety measures.

Just weeks after the fire, in which victims died in stairwells after doors locked behind them, the City Council passed an ordinance requiring that the doors of the high-rises remain unlocked. Two years later, the city passed what is called the Life Safety Evaluation Ordinance, which requires residential buildings 80 feet or taller that were built before 1975 to be equipped with various safety features such as voice communication systems and fire-rated doors and frames in stairways. But it does not require them to retroactively install sprinklers. The city requires most of its older commercial buildings to be retrofitted with sprinklers, but not residential buildings. New York New York City requires sprinkler systems in new construction and in older commercial towers.

But it mandates residential high-rises to retroactively install sprinklers only if they undergo significant renovations or change the use, according to the Department of Buildings. Alan Schulkin, 68, lives in a 39-story building in Tribeca neighborhood that was built in the 1970s and does not have sprinklers. (sprinklers) save lives and one fire, of course worth Schulkin said. Dallas The city of Dallas said the fire department has 89 high-rise residential structures on record, and 23 have some but not complete sprinkler coverage. Three residential high- rise buildings in the city have no sprinklers at all, though they met the requirements of building and fire codes in effect when they were constructed, according to officials.

If a occupancy use stays the same, and the building has had no significant renovations, the requirements of the code under which it was built continue to stand, the city said. Some urge sprinkler mandates across US after Honolulu fire CALEB JONES AND CATHY BUSSEWITZ ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCO FILE Firefighters spray water toward a fire at the Marco Polo apartment complex in Honolulu. The building association checked the price of installing sprinklers about but never started the installation. WASHINGTON The Pentagon will be called to account on Capitol Hill this week for its pricey plan to outfit Afghan soldiers in uniforms with a private-label forest camouflage scheme of dubious value in the desert country. Sen.

Claire McCaskill, fired off a letter Friday to the Pentagon about the report from the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction that found the military might have squandered $28million by purchasing uniforms for the Afghan army without testing their effectiveness. The uniforms use a proprietary forest pattern, while woodlands cover just 2percent of the terrain. Meanwhile, a panel of the House Armed Services Committee will meet Tuesday to hear from John Sopko, the inspector general, who blasted U.S. commanders in June for buying the uniforms that also featured fancier frills like zippers instead of buttons. McCaskill, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, called on the Pentagon to explain why it issued the contract without competitive bidding.

is a contracting decision that makes you smack your head in McCaskill said in a statement. a prime example of wasting hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and got to get to the bottom of how this The Pentagon has not refuted the substance of report. In a written response, military officials acknowledged they needed to study if a cheaper, more effective uniform exists. All told, the Pentagon has spent $93million since 2007 to buy 1.3mil- lion uniforms for Afghan soldiers. Simply using a camouflage pattern owned but not currently used by the U.S.

military could have saved taxpayers $71million, according to report. letter seeks answers in early August from the Pentagon on its progress toward a cost-benefit analysis of alternative uniforms, whether con- tracting law was followed and assurances that future purchases will have proper oversight. The uniform flap has prompted bipartisan outrage. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has pointed to the portion of the report that showed Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak chose the camouflage pattern because liked what he of it during an internet search with U.S.

officials. Grassley, senior member of the budget and finance committees, blasted the decision as and an affront to U.S. Afghan soldiers do fight insurgents from the Taliban and other terrorist groups in terrain where forest camouflage would be appropriate. But no testing was done on the forest suitability, according to the report. It points out that the U.S.

military could have spent as little as $156,400 to determine a camouflage effectiveness in its own lab. Sopko scoffed at the selection process, facetiously asking if American commanders would have agreed to buy or uniforms if the defense minister had liked them. Since the war began in Afghanistan, Congress has appropriated $66bil- lion to train and equip Afghan security forces. no end in sight as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis considers bolstering by several thousand the current U.S. force of about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan.

Pentagon to answer for wasting $28M on camouflage GEORGE PETRAS The Pentagon wasted as much as $28million over the past decade buying uniforms for the Afghan army with a woodland camouflage pattern appropriate for a tiny fraction of that war-torn country. Lawmakers demand answers on why pricey, inappropriate uniforms chosen TOM VANDEN BROOK USA TODAY SUNDAY MIDDAY Pick 3: 4-0-3 Pick 4 6-1-0-9 Pick 5: 6-3-8-3-9 SATURDAY NIGHT Classic Lotto: 6-10-18-20-31-48 Kicker: 5-9-4-7-1-2 Rolling Cash 5: 3-6-14-21-31 Pick 3 0-9-3 Pick 4: 3-2-7-2 Pick 5: 4-3-7-8-1 Mega Millions: 5-32-44-53-60 Mega Ball: 9 Megaplier: 3 LOTTERIES.