NBC Bay Area: Home Depot to pay $1.3M for code violations in 2022 San Jose arson fire
Home Depot has been slapped with $1.3 million in fines for numerous fire code violations, including a disabled sprinkler system, in connection with a 2022 five-alarm arson fire that leveled its Blossom Hill store in South San Jose, the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office said Monday.
The DA's Bureau of Investigators along with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives and San Jose Fire Department found that the code violations hampered firefighters and prevented them from saving the structure, the DA said.
Among the most egregious violations was Home Depot knew the store's automatic fire suppression sprinkler system had been disabled at the time of the fire and failed to fix it, the DA said.