The Toronto District School Board has launched a $90 million lawsuit against city, its fire department and police services board, as well and the Ontario Fire Marshal after a blaze two years ago that gutted York Memorial high school, alleging the scene was not put under a proper fire watch which led to the “rekindling” of the initial smaller fire.
The lawsuit also alleges that incident reports were “modified in an effort to suppress evidence of negligence” on the part of the fire services in relation to the blaze at the school on Eglinton Avenue West and Tretheway Drive in May 2019.
The City of Toronto is named in the suit as it oversees Toronto Fire Services, and the province as it oversees the Office of the Fire Marshal.
A pity as York Memorial had a rich history but does the TDSB really need the facility restored when many schools operate well below capacity or in fact sit empty? Of course not, they remain arrogantly eager to play with tax payer money.
