more on Boston Fire

[Grant]

Associated Press - June 12, 2008 5:44 AM ET

BOSTON (AP) - The widow of 1 of 2 Boston firefighters killed in a fire at a Chinese restaurant last summer has sued the restaurant, blaming negligent maintenance.

Anne Cahill, widow of Paul Cahill, filed suit Wednesday against Tai Ho Mandarin and Cantonese, its grease cleaning service and the building's owner.

Cahill says the companies knew or should have known grease build-up in a kitchen exhaust pipe had created a fire hazard.

The grease ignited in a fireball August 29, killing Cahill and Warren Payne.

Shortly after the fire, The Boston Globe reported that autospies showed Cahill was drunk and Payne had cocaine in his system.

Cahill's lawyer, Neil Sugarman, said the autospy reports won't affect his case. He said the bottom line is the fire could have been prevented.

 

[David Saulque]

Interesting - Nothing to do with the deaths????? - Just think what would have been said if the cleaner HBD or Drug User. AHJ has issues.

 

[Power Cleaners]

Yeah, just got out of bed from a late job and seen that in my email.

Man, sure glad that's not me.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ar...rmer_wife_suing_in_death_of_two_firefighters/

 

[Przrat]

I will tell you this

I was requested to speak at a meeting of the Fire Inspectors regarding hood cleaning. They wanted to know exactly what we did. What should be expected. What to look for. And what we did. It was very interesting because they did not know how cleaning was done. I also put a lot of the responsibility back where it should be. On the installers. In and out, never to be held responsible again. Bull****.They dont install doors, or hinges, they create dips that are collection areas in ducts. They keep the grease pans that should be on the fans. We are the least responsible for functioning systems. But being that all the flaws show up when we clean they want us to be responsible. We are left holding the bag. NOT.
A lot of information was exchanged.
There is quite a bit of fallout after that fire.