Quebec seniors residences lack sprinklers as compliance deadline looms

Roughly 350 of Quebec’s over 14 hundred private seniors’ residences have still not installed sprinklers despite a regulation requiring sprinkler systems ahead of a December installation deadline. The move is in response to a fatal fire back in 2014. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matter for Jan. 22, 2024.

• Decade after tragic fire that killed 32, some Quebec seniors’ residences still lack sprinkler systems