The fire code is a settlement with insurers, written in building deaths.
Scrub the timeline. Every code revision traces back to a fire. Triangle Shirtwaist → sprinklers. Station Nightclub → egress. The code is a ledger of prior disasters.
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Code pages
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Cumulative deaths
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Revisions triggered
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The code page count doesn't grow linearly — it jumps with each disaster. Regulation is mostly grief, translated into language.