Today's edition of the Patriot Ledger newspaper (South of Boston) reports on the results of quarterly inspections of the Quincy Massachusetts schools by the fire department. In some cases schools are repeatedly failing on the same issues, such as uninspected fire extinguishers and emergency lighting not working, for three or four inspections in a row.
The tone of the article seems to be that the fire department is being too harsh on the schools. For example, when one inspector found exit doors in a high school blocked by construction material and one chained shut. He wrote in his report: ‘‘Current conditions of the egresses need to be corrected before someone dies!!!’’ However, Fire Chief Timothy Pettinelli called this comment "outrageous".
Was such a strongly worded comment outrageous or appropriate?
To me blocked emergency exits and chained exits bring to mind fires in nightclubs in which hundred's died. But, what do you think?
Read the article at: http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/10/30/news/news01a.txt
The tone of the article seems to be that the fire department is being too harsh on the schools. For example, when one inspector found exit doors in a high school blocked by construction material and one chained shut. He wrote in his report: ‘‘Current conditions of the egresses need to be corrected before someone dies!!!’’ However, Fire Chief Timothy Pettinelli called this comment "outrageous".
Was such a strongly worded comment outrageous or appropriate?
To me blocked emergency exits and chained exits bring to mind fires in nightclubs in which hundred's died. But, what do you think?
Read the article at: http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/10/30/news/news01a.txt
Labels: safety
1 Comments:
At 7:07 AM,
Anonymous said…
Blocked fire exits are never something to be ignored. For a school to not be meeting fire codes is unacceptable. They should be exceeding code requirements. The inspector's comments are completely justified.
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