Harold Gardner, now dead, gave evidence in 1981 that ‘fire department knew’ what was being recommended
Asked in 1981 whether he recommended to Patrick Butterly, who owned the venue and who is also dead, installing a sprinkler system, Mr Garner said: “I believe I suggested it on one occasion ... but he wasn’t interested.”
“Should you not have done so?” he was asked at the 1981 tribunal. “Looking back possibly. At the time it seemed to be satisfactory,” said Mr Gardner. “The fire department knew what we were recommending.” “I knew they should have a certain amount of flame-proofing,” he told the tribunal. When asked if he understood what ‘surface-spread flame-rating’ [a stipulation in the planning permission for the Stardust] meant, he said it meant if a tile did catch fire “it would not go all over the place”. While he had known there were fire standards, he said “I can’t remember what they were”, he said.“I accepted him when he said they were fireproof.
She told her mother, who managed the kitchen, and they went into the ballroom where they saw flames on a seat towards the back of the west alcove, through a gap in the blinds.
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