Bc sprinklers are insanely expensive to install. If they are not mandated by law to have them, no one would voluntarily put them in.

Sprinklers are expensive as fuck, require maintenance, and are a nightmare to work with unless you have drop ceilings (even then kind of a PITA).

Virtually no place is going to put them in if someone isn't forcing them to with a law or building code.

The daycare and boarding facility I worked at had them

And for those that don't wanna click:

>A doggy day care was on fire. Neighbors helped save all 115 dogs inside.
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>‘I didn’t want to be the guy standing around watching. I wanted to be a helper,’ said Kenny Robinson of Edmonds, Wash., who began to grab and save the dogs
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>More than 100 dogs at The Dog Resort in Seattle were rescued by staff and neighbors when a fire broke out at the dog care facility.
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>ArticleShareKenny Robinson was working in his Seattle office on Feb. 1 when a co-worker rushed in at 11 a.m. with urgent news: The Dog Resort, a day care and boarding facility next door, was on fire
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>Robinson raced outside with several other employees from the contracting company PSR Mechanical — and he began taking photos of the thick smoke that was billowing from the building, which had more than 100 dogs, plus several employees, inside, he said.WpGet the full experience.Choose your planArrowRightWhen Robinson saw dogs racing back and forth in the fenced run next to the building, he put down his phone.“I thought, ‘I can sit here and watch, or I can go over and see if I can be of help,’” said Robinson, 42. “I knew there could be fire on the other side of that wall, next to the dog run.”Robinson was thinking of his own family’s dog, Cody, that had died of cancer in November, he said “There was no way I could save Cody, but maybe I could help these dogs,” he recalled thinking as he saw more than a dozen people from surrounding businesses also rushing over to help before firefighters arrived
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>Employees at the dog care center were putting terrified dogs outside, Robinson said, as he and other neighbors began grabbing the dogs by the collar and bringing them to PSR’s fenced parking lot and loading dock across the street.
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>They realized the parking lot wasn’t completely secured, so one of his co-workers found some plywood to place along the bottom of the chain-link fence so the smaller dogs wouldn’t get out, he said.Within minutes, they had moved more than 40 dogs of all sizes safely into the fenced-in area.“It was really chaotic and traumatic — firefighters arrived and some of the dogs were struggling from the smoke and needed oxygen,” Robinson said. “Another dog got away from me and I had to chase him down. But we got them all out."
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>Other businesses took in dogs too, he said, including a Mexican restaurant and a popular bar, the Hellbent Brewing Company. In all, 115 dogs were rescued as firefighters hosed down the building and knocked holes into the roof of The Dog Resort to allow the smoke to vent.Although the fire caused more than $300,000 in damage, the rescue mission was a success: All the dogs got out and none of the employees were injured. A few dogs needed medical care, but they are now back home, Robinson said.
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>The fire was accidental and broke out in a dryer at the facility, probably due to excessive lint in the vent, firefighters said.“When our firefighters arrived on the scene, they were met with multiple dogs trying to get out of the building,” said David Cuerpo, spokesperson for the Seattle Fire Department, noting that four dogs received CPR and oxygen and were transferred to a veterinary clinic for emergency care.
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>Caraveo, 52, said he and his employees kept an eye on them for the next three or four hours before they were reunited with their owners. Some of the dogs were boarding overnight, and they were taken to temporary shelters.“As you can imagine, they were all pretty amped up and bouncing around,” he said. “There were five dogs in one corner, seven dogs here, eight dogs there.”“We all had a lot of fun petting the dogs and giving them some extra love,” Caraveo added.
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>At Hellbent Brewing Company, Jack Guinn was getting ready to open for the Wednesday lunch crowd when he smelled smoke and saw that The Dog Resort was on fire directly behind his building.“One of my co-workers grabbed some bolt cutters and we ran outside,” he said. “We cut a hole in our fence and the doggy day care people started putting dogs through."
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>Guinn opened a side door to the bar and shepherded the dogs inside, three at a time.“We ended up with 35 dogs inside the bar for the next three or four hours,” he said. “We got them some water and held a couple of the dogs for a while.”“Once everyone realized that all of the dogs were safe, we relaxed and had a lot of fun with them,” he said. “It was a huge relief to learn that all of the dogs got out.”
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>About 75 dogs were eventually taken to other animal boarding facilities until their owners — who were at work or out of town — could pick them up. The rest were reunited with families during the fire response, Cuerpo said.
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>Mona Elassiouti, owner of The Dog Resort, said she is deeply grateful to her staff and everyone who jumped in to help. She has started a GoFundMe as she works out what her insurance covers and tries to establish a new temporary location in the neighborhood.“In the end, it’s just a building,” she said. “We’re giving thanks that every one of the dogs is now fine and healthy.”Robinson said he wouldn’t hesitate to jump in to help in an emergency situation again. But if there is a next time, he said, his phone will stay firmly in his pocket.“The sensory overload was intense, but I’m glad everyone pitched in,” he said. “You know that Mister Rogers’ saying, ‘Look for the helpers?’ That’s how I felt. I didn’t want to be the guy standing around watching. I wanted to be a helper.”

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And not just the lint trap, a friend of mine had a near dryer fire from lint buildup in the back of the dryer cabinet (outer shell). Clean that regularly too.

And then I misread your comment and thought you'd said "doggy daycare" and I was confused because that's what I read, too...

My dogs go to this daycare and the staff went into a burning building to save the dogs……I think they went above and beyond.

Glad you know what their situation looks like with staffing and whatnot.