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...state panel has the authority to overrule the Cambridge building commissioner's recent denial of a permit to allow the Middlesex County sheriff to house prisoners in the jail. The commissioner called the jail a fire hazard because it lacks a sprinkler system...
...long hearing before the three member panel yesterday. William J. Gustus counsel for Middlesex County, said he was confident that the certificate of occupancy would be issued. The chief point of contention in the decision is whether the jail in subject to a 1975 state code requiring sprinkler system in certain buildings. Gustus said, adding that a statue exempts buildings constructed before 1975 from the requirement...
Earlier this week, a Middlesex superior court judge ordered county officials to remove all the prisoners from the jail. He said that because the jail lacks a sprinkler system, it poses a safety hazard to both the inmates and other occupants of the building...
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...
...want to see some things I've only seen in books." It's an odd expression for someone who might be expected to be worldly. "He's curious, full of wonderment," says his wife, "not at all worldly." It delights him to have installed the sprinkler system in the horses' shed himself and to have managed a good deal of the carpentry. Life is good...