20 beds in a garage? Dangerous ‘crash pad’ for flight attendants shut down in Boston
Investigators shut down a garage that had been turned into an illegal crash pad where 20 flight attendants stayed during layovers, according to Boston officials.
The garage was turned into an illegal two-bedroom unit, investigators said in a Twitter post, and “was constructed illegally, stored hazardous material, missing smoke detectors and no 2nd means of egress.”
“Essentially, it can be identified as a death trap,” a spokesperson for Boston Inspectional Services told McClatchy News.
Roughly 20 flight attendants paid $300 a month each to stay in what they called a “crash pad” — popular in East Boston because of how close they are to Logan International Airport, according to city officials.
Investigators received an anonymous complaint from the fire department regarding the illegal unit, city officials said.
“Once we got there, we found the garage, essentially for commercial space, and when we walked in we saw that there were some bedrooms upstairs with 20 bunk beds,” the spokesperson said.
“From my understanding they’ve been operating for about 10 years there, so they went under the radar for quite a while,” Flavio Daveiga from Boston Inspectional Services told CBS.
The tenants were asked to leave and the landlord will have to file the appropriate permits with the city, officials said.
This story was originally published April 7, 2022 at 12:36 PM with the headline "20 beds in a garage? Dangerous ‘crash pad’ for flight attendants shut down in Boston."
