D.C. paid $1M for a team of contractors to manually watch for fire inside the Marion Barry Building—intended as a stopgap while the city spent $529,835 repairing the building’s faulty alert system. But taxpayers continued to foot the growing bill for nearly a year while repairs dragged on.
D.C. Spent $1 Million Hiring Humans to Yell ‘Fire!’ in Government OfficeTaxpayers paid $1,539,835 for a human fire watch and alert system repairs as the work dragged on for a year in the Marion Barry Building.buff.ly