Dunwoody fire victim's family sues DeKalb
Ann Bartlett called 911 minutes after 1 a.m. on Jan. 24 to report she had “set the house on fire with the thing from my nose,” referring to an oxygen concentrator she used when she slept. But the phone went dead during that call.
Engines 12 and 18 and truck 18 pulled up at the 1600 block of Houghton Court North 12 minutes later but they all left when firefighters saw no signs of a blaze. Five hours later, after a neighbor called, firefighters returned to find the home engulfed.
DeKalb County investigated, and found nothing wrong with letting a fire burn out of control and kill a woman.
Are you surprised? I am not surprised. This happens all the time. The government does something outrageously bad. The government investigates their own work. The government then finds that the offending agency followed the rules exactly. Therefore the government whitewashes the bad event, saying they found nothing wrong, and will not punish the agency for following the rules, even though a bad result happened. This happens with firemen. This happens with police. Once the Health Care Deform bill kicks into effect, it will happen with doctors.
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