It's supposed to be cold tonight and that would have put an extra load on the electrical system with heaters. It could have been disastrous.

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

I'm still a bit taken aback.

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.