![]() “I think they’re going to find shoddy construction in most of the buildings,” Jackson said. Jackson said the city plans to comb through the five remaining Faxon Park buildings to check the condition of draftstopping. “I’m very surprised that the building was a total loss,” he said. Jay Duca, Quincy’s inspectional services director, said he sensed something amiss when he saw how quickly the building went up in flames, considering the fire source. State fire code prohibits grilling on balconies in any building other than a one or two-family home. The fire was sparked by a second-floor resident who was cooking on a charcoal grill on her balcony. The city expected to have the building torn down today. “It was not a continuous wall across the attic space it looks like they started it and they stopped and they picked it up further down,” he said.Ĭonsidering the conditions, Jackson said containing Saturday’s fire to one building was “nothing short of miraculous.” Jackson said the gaps found in the draftstopping defeated that purpose. “If draftstopping had been put in appropriately, I don’t know (if) we’d be looking at as much of a loss as we are.”ĭraftstopping is designed to withstand heat and contain a fire in a manageable area, slowing its spread. “This allowed the fire basically to run unchecked through the attic space (and) consume the entire top half of the building,” Jackson said. Quincy Deputy Fire Chief Joseph Jackson said the attics in the Faxon Park Apartments complex that was ravaged by fire Saturday have fire protection walls – called draftstopping – that are full of gaps. ![]()
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