The system does not work part 2

So I get a frantic call from this person, because she is a friend, saying she has to get out of her apartment, that the landlord (who is her cousin) has no money to pay and she has to pay for the motel. Remember - the damage was maybe 3 sq ft large in the kitchen. I knew that there used to be policy concerning this and the city had some funds to provide for these situations. I go to the correct person and find out the city won't do fires any more, but the Red Cross has a Federal Grant to work with this. One night has past and my friend and 3 children are in the Stamford motel cause it is the cheapest motel around. I call the Red Cross, cause the people whose job it was, forgot to. They provide money for 3 nights at a much better place and food vouchers.
Meantime I go and ask
1) why the Red Cross wasn't called and
2)why the unit was condemned

The Red Cross was an over site because this was part of the cross training thing for inspectors and this was this persons first fire. (but it happens with other inspectors - save one)
The unit was condemned because of the smoke and THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAD TO COVER ITSELF, JUST IN CASE!
Ii AM GLAD THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT DOESN'T COME INTO MY KITCHEN WHEN I AM COOKING CAUSE I PRODUCE MORE SMOKE THAN WAS IN THIS APARTMENT.

To be continued...

The system does NOT work-part 1

I was not sure If I was going to post this or not and it might take some time to compose.
The system is broken - a friend had a small kitchen fire in her apartment, not super bad, but the fire department was called and then the health department. I was going to take a picture, but did not and should have. a 1 ft section above the stove was black, a small portion of the ceiling was black, a window pane was cracked and the interior portion broken and a portion of the frame was black. That was it, not 'fire' damage per say, no water damage. A Cockatiel sitting in its cage in the kitchen was not harmed. The Health Department came, they called the owner of the unit (who was a cousin of the tenant) and they condemned the unit. The rooms where they slept were not damaged. She does have 3 children (the youngest is 9). The owner told the Health Department person that they would take care of putting her up until repairs were done. The Health department left.