Flames and heavy smoke were billowing from third-floor window above the Silly Rabbit Vape Shop, beside the Grand Theatre
Angela England saw the massive black plumes of smoke in the sky all the way from the window of her home on East Street Wednesday morning.
The company had completed all of the necessary environmental reports, along with engineer drawings that had been drafted and provided to the municipality. Bhatti said there was a crew of labourers doing on-site work yesterday to renovate the building, working into the late hours of Tuesday night. “The homelessness issue in Sault Ste. Marie is so massive — even in our buildings that are fully secured and have tenants in there.”
Bhatti said city officials “need to change their viewpoint” on housing and homelessness, and have to figure out how to give police more “actionable power to be able to deal with this.” Last year, Bhatti was slapped with $95,000 in fines stemming from a number of fire code violations. He has since appealed those fines, claiming that he has a paper trail showing annual fire inspections as evidence of his company’s compliance with provincial fire code regulations.
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