Three apartment fires with one common factor.
The properties were — and still are — owned by Fu De (Henry) Ren and his wife, Fang Yan. And while the Mount Pleasant fire was determined to be accidental, the buildings and their owners had a record of multiple fire safety violations.
I always assumed the city has a department to check these apartments once every X years to make sure they arent violating building safety laws. Considering so many families/lifes depend on it. Guess not then.