In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

There's a lot of different people out there. Some can whomp
out a fire with an extinguisher, do the salvage and such.
Others, it's a virtual death sentence, to go after a fire.
I like the smoke detectors, the other things (sprinklers and
fire extinguishers) oughta be personal choice.

Outside of high rises. Anything over about 6 stories should get
sprinklers because that is generally about as high as most ladder can
get by the time you get setback, etc., out of the way.
In the City County Building in Ft. Wayne, because the bldg had a
underground garage the largest ladder could only get to the third floor.
Guess which the floor the FWFD occupied?

--
"Politics should be limited in its scope to war,
protection of property, and the occasional
precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class."
-P.J. O'Rourke