JP Smith, Cape Town’s safety and security committee member has issued a report confirming all the fire doors in the National Assembly building were open. News24 interviewed Smith and reported the following. “They have applied latches to the backs of the fire doors and they were all latched open. The point of a fire door is to compartmentalise a fire to make sure that when a fire happens it’s confined to a certain area. The door is of a material that makes it difficult for a fire to spread and it denies the fire oxygen to an adjacent area and these parliamentary offices the fire doors were not in fact closed, they were all latched open.”
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are starting the New Year with a romantic vacation in the Bahamas. The couple jetted off in a private plane and arrived in the Bahamas yesterday. TMZ reports they are staying in a private residence with a group of friends, enjoying private time together.
Novak Djokovic, the number one tennis male player, is expected to be deported from Australia on Thursday evening. Djokovic was denied entry into Australia after his visa did not support the vaccination exemption on medical grounds. All foreign visitors entering the country are required to be double vaccinated.
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Headline: EXCLUSIVE | ‘Useless’ Parliament fire doors were kept open by ‘cheap latches’, report finds – News24
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