Posted on 07/17/2017 4:27:36 PM PDT by artichokegrower
OAKLAND — Officials in this fire-ravaged city reacted with alarm Monday over a report by this news organization that almost 80 percent of firefighter referrals to inspect dangerous conditions went ignored over the last six years.
“It is horrifying,” Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said of the investigation’s findings. “In fact, one of the issues (the story) identified is how it gets decided who gets inspected.”
In January, a month after the Ghost Ship warehouse fire killed 36 people, Kaplan proposed reprioritizing which businesses get inspected.
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I have always said if one can not pee out the front door and shoot a 06 out the back without any body complaining one lives in the wrong spot.
I can and do and shoot a lot bigger guns then an 06.
LOL
She headed for the tall grass.
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Requiring insurance by law is the opposite of personal responsibility.
It is selling out to the Insurance lobby.
When insurance is required by law, it always costs way more.
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I have family in Oakland. The real reason the fire inspections aren’t being done is most of the building on the list simply would not pass an inspection. As a result, many buildings would be condemned while others would be shut down for months while expensive repairs were made. So, rather than create that huge problem among problem in an already tough housing situation, the government (Read-The Democrats)y simply inspect businesses and buildings that they know will pass inspection over and over and over again to get fees. That’s the real story.
It the responsibility for the city to do fire inspections to ID dangerous non compliant conditions. The city collects percentage of property insurance premiums to cover the cost. In my state they collect 2%
Dont they withhold police and fire services down there when people vote tax increases down?
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>> “It the responsibility for the city to do fire inspections to ID dangerous non compliant conditions.” <<
No, it is not!
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Sounds like my place. I hunt deer off MY front porch, wild turkey in MY orchard, quail in MY north field, and pheasant in the breaks on MY creek.
I don’t see that as big government at all. What you have NOW is big government. I think Wuli made a mammoth point.
They are probably to busy fighting global warming to do anything that would actually save people from harm.
If you use car insurance for an example, why wouldn’t I want the law to require another driver be able to fix my car if he/she destroys it? Requiring liability insurance in that case is common sense.
As for property insurance, I always thought the registered owner of the property (usually a bank) requires insurance so they still have an asset if there is a loss. As I understand it, if you own the property outright you don’t have to insure it (and there are cases in the news often enough of people who’ve lost their homes without insurance for this very reason - they owned it outright, and bore the risks themselves).
Here in NJ our worst cities barely provide police protection anymore; they have no money, the state which had subsidized them for decades has no money, and many people living there don’t contribute anything. They don’t buy police protection, they don’t get it...
I suspect many other crappy cities across the country are in the same boat; the other peoples’ money ran out, so they devolve into a Third World state of affairs - and Detroit is the prime example of this.
10Q
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Can’t imagine what you’re doing here!
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