Fire

In the event of fire
At the Street Level in Doramraz some of the ramshackle slum housing is partly made of wood. Combined with the close quarters, over-population, and the lack of more advanced heating and cooking systems, fire is a constant danger. It is not unusual for small fires to break out throughout the Street Level, often spreading quickly to devastate whole neighborhoods before they can be put out. However, the lack of space is so crushing that the ashes are often the foundations of new housing within a week.

One of the hallmarks of Doramraz is the inherent paradox in it's construction. The rich are never as removed from the poor as they think. HOWEVER, it should be noted that one of the main purposes of the wall around the central city at street level is to prevent street level fires from effecting Upper Fourth and the Zenith. It is there for that express purpose (and keeping out the vagrants). If there are any doors at the street level within the central city, they are not commonly known.

The skyscrapers are largely fireproof at their foundations, constructed with steel and stone, and designed to maintain structural integrity even if the Street Level burns down around them. Fire is still a danger, however. Given the distribution of wealth in the skyscrapers, very good fire protection methods exist, and they are better the higher one goes. On the lower ladders of some skyscrapers fire escape ladders clutter the building surface, but on the upper levels occupants are more likely to evacuate by bridge, and in some cases airship-based evacuation has been necessary. To prevent the spread of fire the bridges between buildings are required to be built entirely of non-flammable materials, and in areas where this was impossible--in the case of bridge-supported parks with plant life, for example--a mechanism is put in place to destroy the bridge as a last resort. Since skyscraper fires can generally be contained to a handful of floors, most skyscrapers have tiered elevator systems to allow the elevators above and below the Level of the fire to remain operational.

At the rest of the city: there is an extensive gear driven pump system that draws water from the ocean for the city's plumbing, and the system can be diverted into sprinklers in the ceilings of the skyscrapers. These sprinkler systems are controlled from the basements of the skyscrapers and are divided by level. The controls are kept locked and can only be accessed by approved personel for mechanical checks and in the event of emergency. Doramraz also has an airship based Fire Service.