Word: firewatching
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...testimony, the panel of three state building inspectors state that they saw "no imminent peril to life," and determined that the prisoners could remain in the jail, located on the 17th through 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse building in Cambridge, if the country maintains a 24-hour firewatch by hiring guards whose sole duty would be to patrol the halls watching for fires...
Cambridge fire chief Daniel J. Reagan said yesterday he was very disappointed by the panel's decision. Doubting the effectiveness of the Sheriff's plans for a firewatch, Reagan said that the jail would remain a fire hazard as long as there was no sprinkler system...
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