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Uninformed and complacent directors. |
2. |
Management. |
3. |
The inspection companies that are afraid of losing contracts so they will not say anything. (Not our job to tell the directors, or the owners, that your condo doesn't meet fire code.) |
4. |
Fire departments should be looking at condos far closer than they do. |
5. |
Owners don't know that they should ask to examine these reports. |
6. |
Insurance companies that don't ask for copies to be sent to them. |
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25% of all smoke detectors in
the residential suites were either missing, inoperative, had missing or
dead batteries or were models that did not meet the new fire code. |
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a hallway fire alarm did not work. |
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missing detectors in the elevator shafts. |
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Two smoke detectors in the common elements were inoperative. |