29-06-2017 00:12 via edmontonjournal.com

Sprinklers on track for all government-owned seniors lodges in Alberta

The province says all government-owned seniors lodges will have sprinkler systems by 2019. 
Last year, the government identified 100 high-risk lodges and continuing care homes without systems in place, pledging $80 million to fix the problem. 
Around 75 per cent of those buildings now have sprinklers or are being worked on, and the rest are in planning stages.
With all of the lodges built before sprinklers became part of Alberta building codes, problems associated with aging infrastruc
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