国家的发言人nstitute for Occupational Safety and Health said the agency is “currently reviewing the incident and in communication with the Boston Fire Department, and will make a final decision on whether we will investigate,” reports The Boston Herald.
The NIOSH spokeswoman declined to say when the agency — an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — will make its decision.
Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald said the department is “in the preliminary stages of having NIOSH come in to investigate the fatal fire.”
“We’ve had them in, in the past, and we welcome them again,” he said.
An internal panel of Boston fire officials already is investigating the department’s response to the blaze, and the fire is also being probed by police and fire investigators, along with the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office.
A 2009 NIOSH report said poor training and incident management in the 2007 Tai Ho Restaurant fire contributed to the line-of-duty deaths of firefighters Warren Payne and Paul Cahill.
The report singled out “an insufficient occupational safety and health program, ineffective incident management system at the incident, insufficient incident management training and requirements, insufficient tactics and training, (and) ineffective communications.”
The agency, citing media reports of substance abuse by both firefighters, said it was unable to obtain toxicology reports and made no comment on that aspect of the investigation.
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