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4B TMB TINWESSIAW Friday TOVCMBEH SO. 1990 Site of deadly '89 fire didn't meet codes MEET m- ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 6-8PM. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) A retirement center where 16 people died last year in a Christmas Eve fire did not meet some fire codes In effect during its most recent renovation in 1977, according to a state fire marshal's report. Most of the violations cited in the report are for building materials that were not properly rated for fire protection, openings that were not sealed and a lack of fire dampers in some ductwork.

The violations listed in the state fire marshal's final report on the fire at the John Sevier Retirement Center are based on a 1976 code. The building was renovated in 1977 for use as housing for the elderly. The report also urges prohibiting elderly or handicapped people from being housed in buildings, particularly multi-story buildings, that have no sprinkler system. Doug Buckles, Johnson City fire chief, said yesterday he believed the building was in compliance when a fire started last year in a first-floor apartment The fire was caused by smoking or smoking materials. 4 "It concerns me now, yes," Buc- of a sprinkler system.

A sprinkler system was not required in 1 977. The National Fire Protection Agency said in a report released last month that the fire spread in a space above the ceiling and ignited combustible materials. Vertical openings, including three elevator shafts, allowed smoke to drift to the upper floors of the 11-story building. Since the fire, lawsuits seeking nearly $20 million have been filed on behalf of relatives of victims. Owners of the Sevier center, which housed 145 people, are planning to renovate the building.

One of the lessons to be learned from the fire is that "serious consideration" should be given to prohibiting elderly and handicapped people from living in buildings without a sprinkler system, according to the report A state legislative committee formed after the fatal fire is looking at state fire codes. H5 kles said. "We did not know of anything until after the fire." Buckles said fire officials conducted inspections of the building, but many of the violations found would not have been obvious. He said inspectors are somewhat limited in where they can look. For example, inspectors cannot go into a person's apartment The best time to find the violations is when the building is being renovated.

Buckles said. Chip Herndon, an attorney for the owners of the building, Grant and U.G. Trivett, said yesterday that he has not seen the fire marshal's final report He said minor fire code violations could be found in many buildings. "As to whether that had anything to do with any deaths or Injuries is another question," Herndon said. Other reports on the fire have attributed the deaths, all of which were caused by smoke inhalation, to the building's design and a lack 1976 teen slaying Judge awards $25,000 in death of woman at Bordeaux Hospital OPEN 9AM TO MIDNIGHT 365 DAYS A YEAR wmmmmmm NASHVILLE 2400 West End Avenue -as 1 1 nuTMtt Across from Vandorbllt at 24th Ave.

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Metro attorneys have 30 days in which to decide whether to appeal Gayden's decision to a higher court. By KIRK LOGONS Staff Writer A judge has awarded $25,000 in damages to the children of a 91-year-old woman who died after becoming tangled in her bed restraints at Bordeaux Hospital. Circuit Judge Hamilton Gayden ruled, after a non-jury trial Tuesday, that the Metro-owned long-term care facility was negligent in the care it provided for the elderly woman, Beatrice Carter. Carter, who could no longer walk, had tried to get out of bed more than a dozen times before she was found dangling over the side of her bed, tangled in her restraint vest, on June 24, 1989, hospital employees said. She died the next day, after she Defense to appeal murder conviction (' JOIN as we welcome Edgar Award-winning author James Lee Burke to Brentano's bookstore.

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According to trial testimony, Miss Clowers was last seen with Shepherd on March 28, 1976, after they dropped a third person off at his home. That person, Billy Gentry, then 14, said Miss Clowers had resisted Shepherd's sexual advances earlier in the evening. Traces of an anti-depression drug prescribed for Shepherd were found in Miss Clowers' brain tissue, but there was no conclusive evidence as to what killed her. "There were three or four possible means of death in this thing," said District Attorney General Jerry Estes. "We could not prove cause of death.

But it was either an overdose or strangulation or suffocation. And possibly the suffocation could have been from being buried alive." Two sisters who later dated Shepherd said he had told them of a girl who was buried in the mountains. One said he had admitted killing the girl, but the other testified he claimed she died after other people forced her to take drugs. Corn, who did not put the defendant on the stand, contended there was nothing that showed Shepherd meant to kill the girl. () where he remained in hiding for 10 years.

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