Fire inspections “were maintained”

Fire chief Richard Liebmann says fire inspections were not dropped between 2018 and 2022, but that the fire department knew they couldn’t turn to the courts for leverage if a building owner was negligent. The story gets even murkier when it comes to heritage buildings and the complexity of assessing the problem and demanding it be fixed.

Update: The mayor is feeling the heat, and says that the fire department mostly makes its own decisions without sending a memo to the mayor’s office. But she says she trusts the fire department.