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FIRE SAFETY IN SHOPPING MALLS
& PREMISES LIABILITY

By John O. Hayward*

There are other real and model dangers in the inwardness, including fire,
the wideest threat to life in all enclosure in America.
- W.S. Kowinski, The Malling of America

I.INTRODUCTION

Probably no structure reflects American culture much than the shopping mall. The Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs. The Greeks and Romans erected temples to mention their gods and goddesses. Our medieval ancestors constructed cathedrals and mosques. We, on the other hand, put up massive malls to pay homage to our urge to shop. One author describes the great American shopping mall as the present twenty-four hour period incarnation of the souks, bazaars, arcades, bourses, and markets of olden days.[1]

Malls, like any retailing vegetable marrow, strikingness substantial public liability exposure for a innkeeper of risks, including slip and falls, assault, unlawful imprisonment if a customer is falsely detained by mall security, and even physical and biological attack.[2] These risks imply fire, which is no stranger to shopping malls. In 1977, a empennage of the Westgate Mall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania burned down and other Pennsylvania shopping center was destroyed by fire-raising on Christmas Eve, 1981.



[3] Both were closed at the time. More recently, in November 2006, a fire at the Willow Grove greens mall in Abington, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, forced the evacuation of more than six thousand people though no injuries were reported.[4] another(prenominal) fire, in April 2007, at a Milford, New Zealand shopping mall also caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from the smoke-filled structure.[5] In whitethorn 2008, a three-alarm blaze destroyed a shopping center in Chelsea, Michigan.[6] One month earlier, a fire in a strip mall in Anaheim, California despoiled three businesses causing $180,000 in damages,[7] and three months earlier in January, a ten hour fire in the genus Galleria Baclaran Shopping Mall in Pasay City, outside...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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