On: The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal

[baybal2]

> Where are these regulations from? As in, which country?

As an adult, I lived in Russia, Singapore, Canada, and China.

Russia for sure has at least half of that in the code.

Singapore, and Canada a bit more, but do not mandate fire extinguishers in residential buildings on national level.

And China has all of the above... on paper.

[iguy → baybal2]

Can't say I know anything about those, unless Hong Kong counts -- it is certainly full of towers with barely space for one staircase.

[baybal2 → iguy]

From what I heard, HK indeed requires 2 stairs, just no necessary two separate staircases.

[iguy → baybal2]

Ah, looking again at floorplans, some appear to be stacking two stair paths in one stairwell. So if you have a fire in one apartment, maybe the smoke only reaches (say) even-floor-number front doors.