Leonard Brice Pickel
Registered User
The answer is 0% of over 3,000 events opened to the public every October - There has never been a death due to fire in an operating October seasonal haunted house, temporary or otherwise.
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Halloween Haunted Houses
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The answer is 0% of over 3,000 events opened to the public every October - There has never been a death due to fire in an operating October seasonal haunted house, temporary or otherwise.
fatboy
Administrator
Welcome Leonard!
I never chimed in on this thread, just let it run its course. We typically work with the Fire Marshall to make sure we have as safe as possible venues when this occurs.
Don't have a dog in the fight, be I am curious, where/how did you search to search to verify that has been no incidents, ever?
Interesting to read through the thread and see some names that are no longer with the forum..........one reason or another.
Again Welcome!
I never chimed in on this thread, just let it run its course. We typically work with the Fire Marshall to make sure we have as safe as possible venues when this occurs.
Don't have a dog in the fight, be I am curious, where/how did you search to search to verify that has been no incidents, ever?
Interesting to read through the thread and see some names that are no longer with the forum..........one reason or another.
Again Welcome!
mtlogcabin
SAWHORSE
Six Flags was not seasonal
The statistics would be interesting if available for seasonal haunted houses
The statistics would be interesting if available for seasonal haunted houses
Check fire history::
October 1973
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/sfm/SFMDocuments/Documents/Special Amusement Buildings.pdf
October 1973
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/sfm/SFMDocuments/Documents/Special Amusement Buildings.pdf
Spector_51
Registered User
someone mentioned earlier in this thread to simply not allow them. Probably just joking but i once worked in a jurisdiction that almost did just that. they basically had an ordinance that stated that any haunted house or similar amusement had to be sponsored and receive a certain percentage, (don't remember how much) of reciepts, by a charitable organization. it seems there used to be an active Jaycee chapter that used this event as their primary fund raiser. This ordinance also covered the traveling circuses and a few other of these types of events.
As a side note, i was a former member of the Jaycees in two other communities years before i was a code inspector/ official. In one community we were very lightly regulated. Visqueen everywhere, carpeting on walls, no tour guide, exit path demarcation, emergency light or alarms. In the other community, although heavily regulated, the fire marshall was extremely helpful but at the same time he was very tough.
I have tried to echo the second fire marshal's approach in everything i now do as a code official. He doesn't know this but he became sort of my mentor.
As a side note, i was a former member of the Jaycees in two other communities years before i was a code inspector/ official. In one community we were very lightly regulated. Visqueen everywhere, carpeting on walls, no tour guide, exit path demarcation, emergency light or alarms. In the other community, although heavily regulated, the fire marshall was extremely helpful but at the same time he was very tough.
I have tried to echo the second fire marshal's approach in everything i now do as a code official. He doesn't know this but he became sort of my mentor.