St-Laurent apartment fire: dozens unhoused
A big apartment building in St-Laurent had a fire Wednesday, throwing many immigrant families out of their homes. How can a building that size be permitted not to have working smoke detectors or alarms?
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Kate
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denpanosekai 08:09 on 2019-03-14 Permalink
Not just detectors, but expired fire extinguishers! All kinds of violations. Holy crap, poor girl walking barefoot during yesterday’s weather??? Either that picture was taken during the evacuation or many adults’ priorities just suck.
Ephraim 12:00 on 2019-03-14 Permalink
So, here’s the question of the day… what is in the city’s fire code and new build fire code? Are we still building homes without 120V installed smoke detectors? Are we still building without sprinkler systems? Are we still note putting in 10 year smoke detectors? Fire extinguishers are nice (I have them) but seriously, why are people still relying on smoke detectors with batteries or at least batteries that have to be replaced twice a year… 10 year sealed units, you replace them and the battery at the same time… which is what you are supposed to do… because most of the units are made to last just 10 years.