City of Toronto issued the following announcement on May 31.

Toronto Fire Services has charged several individuals and corporations for alleged violations of the Ontario Fire Code at 1100 Birchmount Road, and both 77 and 99 Harbour Square. After extensive investigation, Toronto Fire Services alleges that the companies named below and their technicians failed to inspect, test, maintain and repair the fire safety systems as required.

Charges have been laid in Provincial Offences Court against Advanced Detection Technologies Corp., James Singer, Rauf Ahmad and Jamia Talimul in relation to 1100 Birchmount Road.

The fire code violations include failure to:

• ensure a person performs the inspection, test, repair, replacement and alteration of a fire alarm system in accordance with the Fire Code

• maintain the fire alarm system and sprinkler system in operating condition

Charges have also been laid against Keyong Tao as well as the following persons and/or companies associated with York Fire Protection: Bushra Rauf, Maf-Bar Consell Ltee., Dave Daniels, 8281076 Canada Ltd. and Rauf Ahmad in relation to both 77 and 79 Harbour Square.

The fire code violations include failure to:

• ensure a person performs the inspection, test, repair, replacement and alteration of a fire alarm system

• ensure elevators are tested

• ensure emergency power systems are inspected, tested and maintained, and

• ensure the annual inspection is conducted for tanks for fire protection, tank supporting structures and water supply systems

The Ontario Fire Code requires fire and life safety systems such as fire alarm systems, sprinklers, emergency generators, elevators and emergency lighting be inspected, tested, repaired, replaced and altered in accordance with specific standards to ensure the health and safety of the public and responding firefighters. The penalties for violations run up to $50,000 and/or a year in jail for individuals and up to $100,000 for a corporation.

Toronto Fire Services is continuing its investigation into other properties that may have been impacted to ensure public safety and compliance with the Fire Code.

Original source: https://www.toronto.ca/home/media-room/news-releases-media-advisories/?nrkey=D6FB58910AB906D98525829E004283ED