The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 174

B4-The Post, Saturday, August 11, 1984 Fire Official Cites Danger Lantana Ladders Won't Reach Top Floors of High-Rises SPA o-PATIO CENTER Come visit Palm Beach County's largest spa and patio shop. Featuring spas, Jacuzzis and patio furniture for your home, condo, or townhouse. According to hospital administrator Charles Wil-lingham, the fourth-floor in one dormitory houses 35 tuberculosis patients and the fourth-floor in a second one houses 40 convicts. He said 75 of the facility's patients also attend classes on the fourth floor. But Willingham said he isn't worried.

Each building meets "life safety codes," he said, and also contains fire doors and posted exit routes. "As far as I can tell we have no problem," he said. Residents of the South Sea Islander condominium, a seven-story building on Lantana Road at the Intracoastal Waterway, are equally fearless. "We've got one of the safest buildings around," said L.A. Browneller, president of the 31-unit condominium.

He pointed out that the building had fire hose connections on the bottom floor, and said that enclosed stairwells at either end of the building were concrete. But Town Administrator Robert Cameron said "there is a potential for loss in high-rises." Despite that, he added, the town cannot afford the $500,000 cost of a longer ladder. By Tina Montalvo SUM WriHr LANTANA If fire broke out in any of seven buildings in town, including A G. Holley State Hospital, people on upper floors could be trapped, fire officials said yesterday. "That's a sorry situation," said Lantana Fire Department Capt.

Russ McGee. The problem is that the department's aerial ladder extends only 35 feet, or three floors. While that is adequate height for most buildings in town, several taller buildings were built before town officials passed a three-story height limitation ordinance. The A.G. Holley State Hospital on Lantana Road is one of them.

Although the Fire Department trains its firefighters to extinguish flames in taller buildings from within, it does not own the equipment to rescue people on upper floors should passageways become engulfed by flame or smoke, McGee said. If a major fire should break out there, "we'd have some problem," McGee said. "The victim load could be pretty heavy." INTRODUCING THE NEW SPA DESIGN "SPARTAN" PLEASE COME SEE WHY WE HAVE BECOME I PALM BEACH COUNTY'S LARGEST SPA PATIO CENTER QUALITY SERVICE ONE. DAY DELIVERY PURCHASE YOUR SPA BEFORE 12:00 PM DELIVERED SAME DAY NO WAITING Crystal Clear Pools Map of central and south Florida shows route and stops of Amtrak's Silver Palm line. The train runs between Miami and Tampa stopping in West Palm Beach and Del-ray Beach twice a day.

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1 Across from Oakbrook Square. 848-1466 NEW HOURS: Monday-Saturday 9 AM 5 PM i Profit Loss May Run Silver Palm Off Track Pirn I said that if people start rushing to ride the train in September it still could make the difference. Hoping to give passenger service a boost, Lt. Gov. Wayne Mixson is leading a "media trip" on the train Aug.

23. Mixson called passenger train service "an essential component of the state's prosperity." The train, which stops twice a day in Delray Beach and West Palm Beach, makes the Miami-to-Tampa run in about five hours. A round-trip fare costs $59. Amtrak's two promotional efforts last fall and this spring drove revenues to their highest point 48 percent of the cost. Expenses ran as high as $280,159 in Sept.

1983, the line's worst month, when it took in $59,890. The DOT said it has launched an "intensive information effort" dubbed Silver Palm, Use It or Lose It" aimed at the media and college students, but that doesn't mean the department is advertising for Silver Palm. The DOT doesn't have a promotional budget. Discontinuing the Silver Palm will leave Florida with three passenger lines. The Autotrain runs from San-ford to Virginia and Amtrak's Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains go to New York City.

In 1983, Amtrak officials said, the Silver Meteor and Silver Star together carried about 870,000 passengers into the state, and 56,427 people rode the Silver Palm. The Miami-Tampa "corridor" probably won't get another passenger line for quite a while. By Tony Wharton Stiff wrlttr Tired of waiting for the Amtrak Silver Palm line's profit to come around the bend, state officials said yesterday they will probably have to cut funding for the passengor train this fall. Hoping to keep the guered line running, the state plans to provide it with promotional fuel. "We're hopeful.

We're giving it the best shot we can within the time we've got," said Shirley Tellander, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Transportation. The state Legislature, which spent $1.8 million on the train line in the first 18 months, can only continue giving Amtrak tax money for Silver Palm if passenger fares support 60 percent of the costs by the end of the second year. That date is Nov. 21, and it looks like the Silver Palm won't be coming in on time. The train has rarely carried more than 100 passengers since the Tam-pa-to-Miami run began in November 1982.

Worse, revenues have never reached even half of the operating expenses. By May of this year, the average portion of the monthly expenses paid for by fares equaled about 40 So, for the state to keep shoveling money into the engines, the number of riders will have to increase by 50 percent. "That would be pretty dramatic," Ms. Tellander said. Blackening the picture even more, Aug.

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