Automatic sprinklers urgently needed in older residences (Globe & Mail)

Christie Blatchford recently wrote about fire safety for Ontario seniors in the Globe and Mail:

"Peter Crawshaw's mother, Elizabeth, doesn't remember the fire last January at the Muskoka Heights Retirement Home in Orillia that took the lives of four fellow residents and nearly killed her, too.

She did remember for a short time, and when anyone asked would just murmur, "Terrible," but now Mr. Crawshaw says, "She doesn't know. It's a blessing in disguise."

For 87-year-old Mrs. Crawshaw, it may be a mercy, but she isn't the only one with a failing memory on the subject: Ontario's frail elderly have been dying in fires at residences called "care occupancies" for almost three decades and still the government won't order in the one sure cure - automatic sprinklers in older facilities."

Read the entire story: Where is the political will to give seniors some fire assurance?