WATCH: The coroner’s report included recommendations into fire fighting strategies and called on Quebec to make automatic sprinklers mandatory in all certified buildings. Mike Armstrong reports.
MONTREAL – A Quebec seniors home where a fire killed 32 people was not up to code, says a coroner’s report released Thursday morning.
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In the report, Cyrille Delage also noted that the employee who was working the night of the fire shouldn’t have been alone and was not properly trained to help in emergencies.
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And, he said disabled seniors were living in a section of the residence that did not adhere to the building codes governing the housing of people with disabilities.
Fire swept quickly through the Residence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte, Que., in the early morning hours of Jan. 23, 2014.
The residence housed 52 elderly people, including many with limited mobility who needed a walker or wheelchair.
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Delage made a series of recommendations including changing the province’s building rules to make it mandatory that all structures under the code be required to have automatic sprinklers.
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The coroner also recommended that provincial authorities encourage rural and urban towns to centralize fire services and to regularly review fire-fighting procedures.
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