Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has acknowledged that fire inspectors stopped investigating building evacuation routes in 2018, years before the 2023 fire that ripped through an Old Montreal heritage building, leaving seven people dead.
have shown problems with the emergency exits were repeatedly flagged more than a decade before the fire on March 16.
Responding to a question from the Ensemble Montréal leader, Aref Salem, Plante said she wants to "shine a light" on the situation and make sure the fire department has sufficient resources to inspect buildings in Montreal."If information of this magnitude escapes her, what other vital information is she missing?" he asked.
The memo says the moratorium was issued because of inspectors' lack of training, as well as standards that differed from those of theshow fire inspectors repeatedly flagged problems at the site of the Old Montreal building, located at the intersection of Place d'Youville and du Port Street. Another document obtained by Radio-Canada shows fire inspectors had ramped up inspections in the aftermath of the fatal fire in Old Montreal.
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