“The coughing is a big problem, and they should’ve let people by going door to door,” Baskerville, 61, argued in the group chat.
That information was not distributed to other residents of the 84-unit building, the tenants’ circle said, while the first widespread tenant check-ins by Ottawa police and community housing came two days after the fact.
Dale Grant, a fourth-floor resident, said he wasn’t impacted by the vapour, but had spoken to a neighbour on the fifth floor who was. “He felt the fumes and everything come up … He said, ‘I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe, I was coughing, my eyes were watering … It was the worst thing that I’ve ever experienced in my life.'”
Oh pls. Something tells me it's not on the police to go door-to-door that should be the resident landlord duty or building caretaker. But hey, we live in a climate of 'blame the police for everything.'