Sunday, May 20, 2012

Retired fire captain urges use of home sprinklers


POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 19, 2012
Nine months after a blaze destroyed the upper two levels of retired fire Capt. Richard Soo's home near Punchbowl, the one-time public information officer and face of the Hono­lulu Fire Department showed off his new sprinkler system and urged others to install one.
Soo says damage to his home would have been severely curtailed had developers of the Kala­wa­hine Streamside Homestead installed sprinklers when the homes were built about a decade ago. The second and third stories of the three-story duplex were destroyed, and the first floor sustained water damage, for a loss of nearly $300,000 to the structure and its contents

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