Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said she did not know the fire department had imposed moratoriums on safety regulations until she read the Globe’s story on the March 16 blaze
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has asked the city’s comptroller-general to probe the local fire department’s enforcement of safety regulations in the years leading up to March 16, when a blaze in an Old Montreal apartment buildingThe Globe and Mail reported
The Globe also reported that the department had imposed a separate moratorium on investigations related to fire alarm systems upgrades in June, 2021. At a news conference later Tuesday, the city’s fire chief, Richard Liebmann, confirmed that moratoriums were put in place on the enforcement of certain safety requirements related to evacuation routes and alarm systems.
Mr. Liebmann, who became fire chief in February, 2020, said the comptroller-general would help the fire department determine what had happened before he took on the role. Documents show that the 2018 moratorium on evacuation route enforcement motivated the closing of a file related to the building’s allegedly non-compliant evacuation routes in September, 2021. A separate file related to the building’s allegedly non-compliant fire alarm system was closed in February, 2021.
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