1507 WALL ST 2018-01-01 MF Import

'o A9ayor Anrierson FROM �, J. Dougherty OAiE 12/5/69 SUBJEC"i !„y�nte V��$�0 ��Q�Q� : -^ � �G�`.%f�� �'" su!aaw�v oF Mv owr� cor�c�usior�s CITY OF CVERCTL EVCRETT. WqSHINGTON r_'.—e"'r, ;� f'VL'1'E'lf � `4 . ''��",�?�1+� The building is in no danger of burning down or walls rnllapsing in on people due to fire. There is an extreme danger of loss of life in the event af fire due to smoKe inh++la{ion because of the exi{ flnd emergency lighting system. All the liphting that I checked in the Halls� Stairwells and the e�ci{ liphts� other than the new one� just installed� are on the g�meral lighting system. Ther.= are not enough exit lights rrow and if the halls were filled with smoke the existing lights wvuld not be visible, Any inieruption of power �wuld be a loss of ligh{, An entire new exit and rrnerpency system is needed. The �in service arid the kitchen services are the potential fire haznrds. The kitchen service has bc*�n altered and jded ao� and equipment removed to the extent that no one knows for sure what wires are energi:ad and wherct {he others are foedinP. Through the years p�nel covere have been lost� Fo�c covers ieft �Pf leavin� live exposed parts £or people to come in contact with. The panels are so obsolate that new covers are not evailable. !�ny of ihe conductors stww insulation deteriation and some are overfused. The expense of irying to salvage the old equipment would be qrcater than replacing it with new�. The main services in the boiler room Fuve also beon remotleddd to tlie extent they no longer come close {o the minimum safety requirements. The three phase service now needs fuse clamps to help prr.vent iF� panel from burning. �o�ds have vbeen altered to a•ro�i a cortplete blow up� but {he dami�e has alreedy been done to the panel. It can blow out a{ anytime. The trein power panel also has hod extensive alterations since orip�inally installed in 1924. There is no way this panel could walify for the UL mim mum safety label. Upon inspection December 2� I:zlled t�1r. Walt Sellers attention to the covering of soot from the boilers o� {hc fuses. The soot clri�ts in around the openings in the service panel. E3y the same means� waier IeAking from the boiler or pipes could enter the panel causin� a blow up. lVe also no{eddthe circulatin� heat pumps are now being run on extension cords. IJo contractor� Flectricel [r.gineer or the owners themselves have questioned the haznrds noted on the sdrvice panels. ',tr. Bev Travis from Travis Engineering told me qhu was aPraid to move the wires when he rrv3de a study for a new service for fear of a blow up. The conduits enclosing the rmin service wires in the nlley have rusted to the extent of heving holes in the pipes at the earth line. They are just hanging on the �viras and any hea�•y blow could cause thern to break off shorting out the wires or even norse would be to set up an elecirical ch:irge on the conduii. Anyoi;e in the alley can grasp {hese pipes. I feel somethinn should be done to correct these problems as too rtriny people kno�v that I as a Ciiy repre,entative am aware of {ho p�teniial hazard,. It is my belief thai the city would be open ior a lawsuit in the event of injury charping me wiih derelict of duty for not forcing corrections.