Fire Alarms – What a Concept –
October 21, 2019 – The organization, which is described in this article as a nonprofit and says on its own webpage that it is a 501c3 but resides at a dot-com address and has no listing on GuideStar, put forward the argument that the requirement violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. But a few weeks ago, a three-judge panel of the first US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled against Jeffrey Summers, who runs the facilities, finding that an exemption from the fire safety requirements was neither reasonable nor necessary. Summers took the usual tack of threatening to close.
“I’ve been battling the city for eight years on this and it does get tiresome, but we’re going to be here until it’s no longer feasible,” he says. “We’re not really sure what happens now. The worst-case scenario is that we shut our doors altogether.” Mayor Stephen DiNatale, however, seems unfazed by that prospect.
