Photo: RNZ / Samuel RillstoneInvestigations are underway into what went wrong in evacuating Wellington's Loafers Lodge last night. A 13-part, four-page compliance schedule for a Building Warrant of Fitness (BWOF) at Loafers Lodge shows it had a type three fire alarm. Fresh from a briefing by officials earlier today, Housing Minister Megan Wood said the safety requirements "were all being met" at Loafers Lodge. A Pentecostal church used to be run out of the Loafers building, which was called the Lifepoint Building in the 1990s. "All that tragedy, all that human tragedy, wouldn't be here if this building was fully sprinkled with an operable system."

Source: Stuff May 17, 2023 04:33 UTC