Fire Safety: It’s always a series of problems, not just one.

Backstage at BackstageJobs.com | Life behind the scenes…: "Every major theatre fire, and most minor ones, had multiple failures or circumvention of existing safety devices and laws. From theatre fires 100 years ago to fires in the last 10 years, each one had more than one safety plan/item being ignored or blocked before fire even started. What’s more, too often it assumed that the local laws and existing emergency plans are not flawed. We are assuming everything else will work, when quite frequently it doesn’t.