Chipboard Inferno - Ottawa

On September 26, 2013 eight chipboard row houses went up in flames in Ottawa, Canada leaving thirty-five souls homeless.

Nobody cares, but modern “Risk Management” does the math on how much money will be saved and how many lives will be sacrificed when fire regulations are bent in favor of cheaper ways to build houses.  Concrete firewalls between units are gone and building cladding is often highly flammable – almost explosive chipboard.

In my time every life mattered.  Today, you might be the one in a thousand who pays the price to play in a risky greedy “Risk Management” world.

Firemen don’t live in chipboard houses.