Posted on 01/05/2022 7:34:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
Democrat Mayor, Democrat-Run State.
But they’ll blame it on a Republican.
We had the MOVE bombing and Bud Dwyer pulling a live tv head shot.
Solid place here…
Hey man, nice shot!
Word is the smoke detectors didn’t have batteries in them. Not just dead batteries, no batteries at all.
Good song.
Prolly stuck them in the TV remote.
They say you should check your batteries on daylight savings time. Pretty easy operation around here, we took them out 8 years ago when my son got an R.C. helicopter for Christmas. What a day of learning and adventure that was.
My old town… was beautiful back in the day.
I lived in Fairmount for a year in the early nineties and my home bar was there as well. Definitely went downhill after that.
I nearly bought a new townhome at the edge of Fairmount Park in the late 80's. I changed my mind and went out to the 'burbs and never moved back to Phildelphia. I loved living there in the 80's but I had enough brushes with crime that I figured my time was up. I think it was the right decision. Of course now our son has moved into the city . . . hard to argue with him when he's doing just what I did at his age.
Cities are exciting and great places to live pre-marriage. The Art Museum area was the best of urban living; minutes to center city, boat house row, Fairmount park. University city was just a bike ride across the river, lots of great eateries and pubs but if you are at the wrong place at the wrong time your life can be change forever.
Yep. I’ll be relieved when our son heads out of the city. For now we just shield him with prayer from the ‘burbs. I’m glad I experienced it when I did. I was in Old City; he’s in Fishtown.
Sadly it is going to be a long, hot year. With gov’t interference and eviction moratoriums (still in place in NY) most small landlords are going to turn to “self help evictions.” Not to say that this was in play here though.
Tenants always remove batteries from smoke detectors when they go off whilst cooking/frying. And they clip the hard wired ones as well.
But was it a legal or an illegal multi-family dwelling? And if it was the latter, did the people running Philly give a damn?
I wonder if there were functioning, hard-wired smoke detectors and CO detectors...
Q for the PHA: If you think tenants won’t keep batteries properly installed, why not ensure that your dwellings have your smoke and CO detectors hard-wired in...?
The PHA’s budget runs to 488 pages and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And you rent these wrecks?!
I’m really wondering about CO poisoning now...
I have to say in all seriousness, as the long time owner of a very high end South Philadlephia row home, anytime our several generations of ovens get above 325 degrees, unless the vent out fan and the back door with a fan are on full blast, the smoke detectors go off and the kids grab brooms to bash them until they shut off. So much that all our neighbors know to disregard them - it’s one of the first things we tell new neighbors.
We’ve had several contractors in who’ve told us that is the city code, so, although I’m skeptical of exactly what was going on in that home, there are exacerbating factors in the realm of possibility.
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