The State farm stadium which is about to host the Super Bowl in the next month has been reportedly known for multiple fire code vulnerabilities. Before any event takes place at this very stadium, multiple inspections will take place at the spot to ensure no harm to the audience. Arizona Fire Marshal’s Office inspectors’ have taken over the responsibility of inspection.
According to a recent survey, the stadium has an average failure rate of 46% within a time of five years. There have been cases where up to 20+ violations were seen.
The General Manager of the State Farm Stadium, Andy Gorchov, has made promising statements about the matter. He assured us that he and his team will try their best to excel in the inspection and will be more sincere in rectifying any kind of violation of the state codes for fire.
The hyped stadium crashed on 19 of its inspections out of 27. From the statistics of the past five years, the failure rate is quite upsetting, though there are also some events of notable quick fixations from the Stadium’s authority.
The Stadium has assigned a fire safety expert so that they can have continuous surveillance over any occurrence of fire code violations.
However, some recent violations were clogged doors, less effective fire-controlling systems, and wrong placements of emergency exits that block the paths of electrical dashboards.
But the authority has claimed these problems to be minor addressing that if anything crucial occurs, they will take steps against that.
The new reports have stated potential violations of the stadium, stating that it had multiple alarm ringing on the fire alarm panel. On August 16, 2022, the authority confirmed that they have healthy fire safety maintenance. Manager Gorchov even termed it a perfectly working system.
The stadium even lacked an alarm compliance certificate, they have recently managed to get one that was issued a few days ago.
Such malfunctions lead to low-level fire detections and cause delays during any emergency. The alarm panel had over 50 violations that were detected recently on an inspection. Even the Stadium manager refused to give an interview about the Stadium’s recent inspection statistics.
Butch Browing, a fire expert of State Fire Marshals said that it doesn’t require much time for a fire accident to go widespread. Browning also added that maintaining security codes are crucial in saving lives and resources, but the responsibility also lies on the building owner, and operator so that no stone is unturned to ensure the safety of the audience.
Again this month, the stadium will need to fix its fire alarm services. The big event of the Super Bowl is just around the corner and will take place at the State Farm Stadium. So the stadium authority must maintain its safety standards to ensure public safety as there will be a lot of audiences looking forward to having an amazing experience sitting in the Stadium and enjoying the Super Bowl tournament.
