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Charleston panel releases report on Sofa Super Store blaze

Finds inadequate training, aging equipment contribute to deaths

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, May 16, 2008

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Inadequate training, outdated tactics and aging equipment contributed to the deaths of nine firefighters in the Sofa Super Store blaze here last year, according to a long-awaited report by a city-appointed panel of firefighting experts.

According to a story in the Charleston Post and Courier, the panel also said that if the store, a former grocery store, had been “constructed and maintained in accordance with state and local codes,” the fire would have been quickly controlled.

One day before the report’s release Thursday, longtime Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas announced his plans to retire.

To read the Post and Courier story, click here.

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