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Saskatoon fire department shutters problematic Prairie Heights condo

The Prairie Heights apartment building. (650 CKOM file photo) A condo building in Pleasant Hill has been shut down by the Saskatoon Fire Department after multiple attempts to solve dangerous and unsanitary living conditions over many months. Saskatoon assistant fire chief Yvonne Raymer said the department couldn’t continue to stand by and watch the building deteriorate any longer. “Despite our best efforts to ensure the building was safe, clean and not a fire hazard, we cannot get ahead of the constant vandalism, squatting, drug trade (and) risky and unhealthy behaviours,” Raymer said in a news release. Two weeks after inspectors closed 16 of the 44 suites inside the condo tower at 1416 20th St. W, Raymer cited a water leak in the building seeping through the drywall and filling up the elevator shaft as the reason for shuttering the building.

Water leaks the final straw as fire department shuts down Prairie Heights

  SASKATOON The Saskatoon Fire Department says it is left with no other option than to close the entire Prairie Heights high-rise. “Despite our efforts to ensure the building was safe, clean and not a fire hazard, we cannot get ahead of the constant vandalism, squatting, drug trade, risky and unhealthy behaviours,” Assistant Chief Yvonne Raymer said in a news release. “We cannot allow people to live in this building until significant changes are made.” According to the fire department, the latest inspection of the building revealed a water leak that is starting to seep through drywall and leak into the elevator and collecting in the elevator shaft.

Fire department closing remaining suites at troubled Saskatoon condo tower

On Wednesday, an inspection revealed a water leak from an unknown source in the building. The fire department turned off the water, which meant there was no operational sprinkler system, Raymer said. Electricity was turned off to reduce the risk of fire, but that meant the fire alarms would go into battery backup mode and be drained, so there would be no fire alarm system either. We can t continue to fix the protection systems and keep everything going, Raymer said. It s just not feasible at this point. It s just going to end up costing them more than what it s worth for the last 15 residents.

Tenants Forced Out, Building Closed

By Gord Wiebe May 6, 2021 | 11:08 AM The Saskatoon Fire Department says, after months of action to improve living conditions at 1416, 20th Street West, it was left with no other option than to close the entire building known as Prairie Heights. Assistant Chief Yvonne Raymer says, “Despite our efforts to ensure the building was safe, clean and not a fire hazard, we cannot get ahead of the constant vandalism, squatting, drug trade, risky and unhealthy behaviours.” She says they cannot allow people to live in the building until significant changes are made. The latest inspection of the building revealed a water leak that is starting to seep through drywall and water pooling in the elevator shaft.

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