Fire and Failure: how a chain reaction of mistakes resulted in 2 deaths at construction site
(InvestigateTV) — When Demonte Sherrill first started streaming on Facebook Live, nothing immediately stood out as problematic.
He’s clearly at a construction site, wearing an orange shirt, yellow safety vest and hard hat. The background seems a little hazy. The only thing unusual is that he’s holding a cloth over his mouth before he starts to talk.
“Yo, I’m at SouthPark right now. At work,” Sherrill said into the camera.
Reuben Holmes is standing behind him. They’re a two-man subcontractor team installing windows and doors at Modera SouthPark apartments on Liberty Row Drive. Sherrill swings the camera to face the other way, showing more of the construction site. It’s filled with smoke.
“The building on fire.”
He pulls the camera back to show himself. He’s standing on an unfinished balcony, leaning on the railing toward fresher air. They’re on the sixth floor.
Mill Creek Residential, one of the largest multifamily housing developers in the nation, was building two luxury apartments. The two men are in Building B.
“I can’t get out,” he said.
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