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The hotel fire that helped put helipads on roofs
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When the supposedly 'fireproof' Winecoff Hotel went up in flames in 1946, it exposed a fatal flaw in high-rise architecture. Helicopters, still in their civil aviation infancy, were entirely useless for evacuation because the roof wasn't flat or reinforced. It took a historic tragedy for architects to realize that giving rescue choppers a place to land might actually be a good idea.
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