Mr. Sam Doran:

We had three near misses. We had a guy having a smoke out on the balcony late at night and he flicked the cigarette out and the wind blew it back in two floors below, which had artificial grass that caught fire. Luckily, the woman was home and she put it out with a basin of water. We had another one a couple of months later with the same thing again. A guy was smoking up on a balcony, threw out his cigarette and there was a plastic box on the balcony with toys and a kid's colouring book which caught fire. Luckily, again, there was somebody there.

The last one we had was a fella having a smoke - a taxi driver - before he went to work. In the car park, he threw the cigarette down a storm drain where there were loose papers in it which went on fire, the smoke came back through the pipe and up through the whole building. The neighbours rang in and said "Look, we have a fire in the building, we can see smoke." The fire brigade turned out seven fire units, a rescue unit, two ambulances and a fire officer because they knew of the defects in the building.

The last one we had was a guy who filled his car, a diesel car, with petrol and when he came home it was sputtering. What did he do? He emptied it all down the storm drain, which ran right into the plant room. I got a call on the Sunday to say there was a smell of gas in the building and I said, "you don't have gas in the building, I'm on my way over." When I went over, I traced it back and I was there until 10.30 p.m. that night, hosing out the drains. If he had come along and had another smoke, the whole building would have been gone.

We are living in constant danger of this and nothing is happening.