THE CORRUPT ACTIONS, OF TORONTO'S DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF, JIM JESSOP, IN DIRECTLY CARRYING OUT, REPRISAL ACTIONS, AGAINST A TENANT WHO HAS COMPLAINED, AGAINST A LANDLORD'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS, UNDER THE FIRE CODE.
TORONTO'S DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF, JIM JESSOP, HAS FAILED TO ASSIST, IN THE RELOCATION OF THE TENANTS, HE HAS CAUSED TO BE DISPLACED, OVER FIRE SAFETY CONCERN, CONTRARY TO THE CITY'S MANDATE.
The city of Toronto has an emergency plan, that was put in place by city council, specifically, dealing with rooming houses. The Rooming House Emergency Response Plan, is supposed to be a coordinated effort, by various agencies and the Toronto Fire Services, to help assist those tenants of rooming houses, who are displaced due to a fire, or a threat from a fire. Or some other emergency situations, that would make the building unsafe. The Toronto Fire Services, is also one of the primary response team, who is also mandated to help find temporary housing, for the tenants it has displaced, when rendering a building unsafe, due to dangers from a fire. So what has the Deputy Fire Chief, Jim Jessop done, in this case?. Nothing. It is questionable also whose side he is on, whether the landlord of the rooming house, or the tenants that he has also displaced with his notice, about the unsafe and also illegal rooming house, at 27 Four Winds Drive, in North York. One of the more questionable actions, of the Deputy Fire Chief, is why no charges has been laid against the owner of the rooming house?. In fact, rather than to prosecute the landlord, over his illegal actions, in regards to the rooming house, Toronto Fire Services, Deputy Chief, Jim Jessop, his Captains and Inspectors, have all aided him. One fire inspector, Mark Spedaliere, even showed up at a hearing, to testify on the criminal landlord's behalf!. And in the process also lied to protect him! This Blogger has always been thorough in her reporting, to also have the evidence, to back up about what she has reported on, over the years. And this case is also no exception. As I have also said in the previous articles on this story, that one of the biggest problems that exist, regarding the actions of those Toronto Fire Services, personel, is the evidence of the Toronto Fire Captain, Rob Patten and Inspector Mark Spedaliere's actions, in lying about the number of tenants, living in the rooming house at the time, and thereby,also, minimizing the dangers to those tenants, just so that they could also protect the very criminal landlord who had put their lives at risk, in the first place.
THE CORRUPTION, THAT IS NOW EMERGING, ABOUT THE TOROTO FIRE SERVICES, HIGH LEVEL OFFICERS AND LOWER RANKED OFFICERS, IS ALSO VERY DISTURBING. THEY ARE THERE TO SAVE LIVES, BUT DO NOT ALWAYS DO SO. THERE ARE NOW MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS, OVER THE CONDUCT, OF THE TORONTO FIRE SERVICES AND THE LANDLORD OF THE ILLEGAL ROOMING HOUSE. ALL OF WHICH COULD, ALSO, LEAD TO CRIMINAL CHARGES,
AGAINST THOSE OFFICIALS, INVOLVED.
Fire Services, acted in such a criminal manner, in regards to their investigation, that I am also predicting that they will also face criminal prosecution, over their actions. There are too many corrupt Toronto city officials, but these ones also takes it up a notch, further, when they also endangers the lives of the public.
THE RESIDENTS OF AN ILLEGAL ROOMING HOUSE, WHO WERE DISPLACED BY THE TORONTO FIRE SERVICES, CLAIMING AN "IMMEDIATE DANGER" TO THEIR LIVES, HAS NOT BEEN TEMPORARILY HOUSED. THIS IS CONTRARY TO THE CITY OF TORONTO'S MANDATE, THAT THE TORONTO FIRE SERVICES, AFTER ISSUING NOTICES TO THE TENANTS, DUE TO A SUPPOSED "LIFE THREATENING SITUATION", RELATING TO A FIRE, ALSO HAS THE DUTY, TO HELP IN RELOCATING THOSE RESIDENTS, WHO WERE AFFECTED, BY THE NOTICE, TO REMOVE THE TENANTS FROM THE BUILDING. THE DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF, JIM JESSOP, HAS SOMEHOW AVOIDED HIS DUTY IN THIS CASE, IN ASSISTING TO RELOCATE THE TENANTS THAT HE AND CAPTAIN ROB PATTEN, WHO WAS DIRECTLY IN CHARGED OF THE INVESTIGATION, INVOLVING THE ILLEGALLY CONSTRUCTED ROOMING HOUSE, HAS YET TO HELP TO RELOCATED ALL OF THE DISPLACED, TENANTS. There is much more to this story and it involved not only those corrupt Toronto Fire Services officers, putting the lives of the public at risk, but also involved their own individual corruption, for which they should be prosecuted.
Toronto Fire Captain Rob Patten |