Tuesday, August 28

Burned Church had Several Code Violations

From: Des Moines Register

The east Des Moines church that burned Friday in an apparent arson was used for several years as a shelter for the homeless and had been tagged with several fire code violations, a fire official said Saturday morning.

The Des Moines Fire Department was aware the pastor who owned the the Lighthouse Full Gospel Church, Rev. David Reasby, had been using it as a shelter, and worked with him over a period of years help bring the building up to code, department spokesman Brian O’Keefe said.

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Note: How often is your facility checked for building and fire code violaions? Does your facility view safety violoations as a priority to repairing? If not it may be important to think about the liability that you and your facility may have for not repairing known violations.

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