Enrique Velazquez, director of Minneapolis’ Inspections Services Division, said the Bell Lofts’ fire suppression system did not alert the fire department to a December flood that displaced about 50 people. Had it worked, he said, authorities could have potentially reduced the amount of flooding.
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