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HALIFAX:<\/strong> Halifax Fire is not effectively overseeing and managing its fire inspection program, HRM Auditor General, Evangeline Colman-Sadd, said in a report released yesterday, Sept. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Halifax Fire is not meeting its legislated fire inspection obligations.\u00a0 Fire senior management determined the fire inspection model was not sustainable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n While some changes have been made, adequate plans of how further improvements will be achieved are lacking.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHalifax Fire should detail plans for an adequate system of fire inspection, including identifying the processes and resources needed to maintain it,\u201d the auditor general said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fire inspections are not completed in a timely manner; 40% of the inspections examined were not performed on time.\u00a0 In addition, there are no reliable lists of buildings to inspect.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithout an adequate inventory, it is difficult to know if a property exists, and whether and when a building should be inspected,\u201d Colman-Sadd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audit also found inspection quality assurance and staff training processes need improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n HRM Fire management agreed to implement all fourteen audit recommendations, the release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report is available on the auditor general\u2019s website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That can be found at: https:\/\/hrmauditorgeneral.ca\/published-reports .<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”141″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”140″] HALIFAX: Halifax Fire is not effectively overseeing and managing its fire inspection program, HRM Auditor General, Evangeline Colman-Sadd, said in a report released yesterday, Sept. 15.\u00a0 Halifax Fire is not meeting its legislated fire inspection obligations.\u00a0 Fire senior management determined the fire inspection model was not sustainable.\u00a0 While some changes have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2,2562,50,1794,2563],"class_list":["post-23542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fall-river","tag-fire-inspection","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-fire","tag-hrm-auditor-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}