About windows in high rises?

[question everything]

I think that they are not supposed to be opened, not to break the climate control.

Thus, wouldn't shooting the windows first have sounded the alarm? And pointed to the location?

If they don't have these kind of sensors, they should.

Yes, I know, the "locking the barn after the horse fled" or something. But these things will not get better.

[mainstreetonce]

1. I thought about that

How difficult would it be to wire the windows to alert security?

[RockaFowler]

2. I heard he used a hammer to break the window

That seemed rather odd to me

I think you might be onto something, though. The window should have been a warning. There are alarms everywhere in Vegas. It's strange that this wouldn't have raised some sort of alarm at the point when he knocked out the windows.

[customerserviceguy]

3. All new construction

above the second floor should have anti-terrorist glass, the kind that can sustain a bomb blast. Sure, it's heavy, but that can be designed into a building's original blueprints. As far as breaking a window to get out during a fire, look how that worked out on 9/11.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

4. Police say he used a hammer type object

I believe it as a burst of gunfire he thought may intrude on his plan.

[Adrahil]

5. Yeah, I head it was a carbide tipped "glass hammer" like used by first responders.

tempered glass can be very tough, and a specialty device like that might be needed,

[question everything]

6. Similar to the one used to break car window if goig under water

https://www.firesupplydepot.com/emergency-auto-hammer-seat-belt-cutter.html

Both of us keep one of them in our cars.

[Adrahil]

7. Yeah, though now they are reporting a sledge hammer.

Dunno.