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.
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.
