2817 COLBY AVE FIRST INTERSTATE BANK 2018-01-02 MF Import

12491 everett June 22, 1987 AT! 221987 CITY OF EVERETT the Evergreen JOMN ORAKE Putr'ic Works Dept. CITY OF FIRST INTERSTATE BANK eve rett PO BOX 160 SEATTLE, NA 98111 RE: FIRE PREVENTION INSPECTION AT 2817 COLBY AVENUE, EVERETT 'a" O•KES' 2" lb+ EVERETT WSHINGTON The business located at the above address has been reinspected. This "M, reinspection was made to check your compliance in removing the siRr ncr.R,ME Nf violations listed in the previous letters. The following items are in violation of the Fire and Life Safety Code and demand immediate action: + 1. Maintain and have available for inspection a written record of test(s) of the fire protection equip ant. a. sprinkler systems in basement and second floor 2. A serious problem with the exiting exists on the second, third, and fourth floors. The Uniform Building Code defines an exit --'A continuous and unobstructed mean,, of egress to a public way, and shall include intervening doors, doorways, corridors, exterior exit balconies, ramps, stairways, smoke -proof enclosures, horizontal exits, exit passage ways, exit courts, and yards' (Sec. 3301(b)). The Uniform Building Code requires that --'the second story shall be provided with not less than two exits when the occupant load is ten or more' (Sec. 3303(a)) and 'occupants on floors above the second story and in basements shall have access to not less than two separate exits from the floor or basement' (Sec. 3303(a)). The occupants of this area of the building do not have access to exits as required in the code. The second means of egress goes out on the roof of the building next door. The problem is further complicated by lack of adequate exit signs. Neither is there any provision for emergency lighting in this area where there is no natural light. Any fire incident which involved the exit stairway or any access to the stairway would certe..inly put the occupants in jeopardy of serious injury or worse. The code states that buildings which are 'not provided with adequate egress are,' 'for the purpose of this section, unsafe' (Sec. 203 UBC 1985). Such unsafe conditions are to be abated by repair or rehabilitation. Failure to provide such repair or rehabilitation could result in an order to vacate the offending areas.