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U.S. NEWS Saturday 22 July 2017

London blaze makes US building owners mindful of fire threat

the London tower said the That awareness is prompt- Officials are awaiting test
same panels were used in ing a renewed look at ex- results to determine if the
some U.S. buildings. How- terior materials — often Baltimore Marriott Water-
ever, many building owners called cladding — at sev- front hotel, which rises more
were unaware of that. eral U.S. buildings. Local fire than 30 stories over the
British authorities are in- marshals are among the city’s harbor, used Reyno-
vestigating whether those best resources for anyone bond PE panels.
Reynobond PE panels and concerned about a build- New York-based Arconic
other materials helped ing’s safety, said Jon Narva, Inc. has stopped selling
spread flames across the a spokesman with the Na- those panels for use in high-
doomed Grenfell Tower. tional Association of State rise buildings. In general,
“I think the public has this Fire Marshals. “The fire mar- U.S. buildings made of con-
awareness of this stuff they shals are going to be aware crete, steel or glass will mer-
never had before, and the of the circumstances sur- it few concerns, Solomon
building owners have more rounding the Grenfell fire, said. “If you have some-
Fans walk into Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland. In sales awareness,” said Robert and they should be able to thing that’s not in those
brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the “stunning visual Solomon, a fire protection help any concerned build- three categories, people
effect” its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL engineer with the National ing owners with finding out are starting to take a look
stadium, an Alaskan school and a 33-story hotel on Baltimore’s Fire Protection Association. information,” Narva said. at that,” Solomon said.q
waterfront.
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

By JEFF MARTIN showed how flames can
Associated Press quickly cover a high-rise,
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. build- devouring it from the out-
ing owners should review side, fire experts said Friday.
what materials their struc- An Associated Press review
tures are built with following found that the manufac-
a deadly fire in London that turer of the panels used in

4 injured as helicopter crash

lands on Los Angeles street

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ter-landing pontoons had
small helicopter crash- been deployed.
landed on a San Fernando Four people who were on
Valley street on Friday, injur- board appeared to have
ing four people on board, non-life-threatening inju-
authorities said. ries, fire officials reported.
The helicopter made a The helicopter, a Robinson
hard landing around noon R44, is registered to Na-
in the Sherman Oaks area tional Helicopter Service,
near U.S. 101, according to based in nearby Van Nuys,
Fire Department reports. California. The company’s
The aircraft did not catch website indicates that it
fire, and nobody on the offers helicopters for tours,
ground was hurt. Televised chartered flights, aerial cin-
reports showed the heli- ematography and engi-
copter on a small street in neering services.
a leafy neighborhood of A woman who answered
single-family homes. Its ro- the phone at the company
tor blades appeared to declined to immediately
be bent and yellow wa- comment.q