'Perfect storm' of failure led to young homeless man's death in a fire near Hamilton University: MPP

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Last September, Hamilton firefighters rescued a man in his 20s inside a burning, boarded-up building owned by McMaster University.

Shortly after arriving at the hospital, he died.

The home was part of a set of buildings between Dalewood and Forsyth avenues slated to become the site of a new school residence building.

Glenn De Caire, McMaster’s director of security and a former police chief, previously said people managed to get into the buildings despite them being boarded up, fenced off and having security regularly patrol the area.

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But security reports obtained by CBC Hamilton through a freedom-of-information request show there was another fire at one of

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