RVA 5x5 - Sept. 30, 2022
Complete and Total Incompetence & Negligence; Where To Begin; Looking Back at Inaction; We’ll Leave the Light on For You.
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STORY #1 — Complete and Total Incompetence & Negligence
There can be no more fitting title for this post than this jaw-dropping, migraine- inducing story from Tyler Lane at CBS6 about the repeated warning signs about fire safety that were not only missed — but flat out ignored — by Richmond Public Schools (RPS) officials in 2020 and 2021 that culminated in the destruction by fire of Fox Elementary and later the school bus maintenance facility a few months later.
If it’s not criminal to so blatantly put thousands of kids’ lives at risk, it certainly should be a fireable offense. But what happened to the Director of Facilities who ignored all the warnings and repeated pleas by Fire officials to do something —anything — about the clear and present dangers to our schools and the kids inside them? RPS gave him a $30,000 raise.
Before the fire that destroyed Fox Elementary School in February 2022, a Richmond Fire Department ca…
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