A door-to-door survey will be conducted at 71 Thorncliffe Park Drive beginning Monday (July 20, 2015) to make sure that window are properly installed with mechanisms to prevent children from falling. A 4-year-old boy tumbled from a bedroom window while playing with other kids in a bed on the 15th floor Saturday about 5.30 p.m. Police said parents were gathered in the living room on socializing on the final day of Ramadan, the Muslim holiday. According to the child’s uncle who was interviewed by CP24, the boy was playing with his mother’s cellphone when he climbed onto something in the bedroom and fell through the window. Abbas Kolia, the president of the building’s tenants’ association, told CP24 that safety locks were installed on all the windows in the building two years ago. “It’s very sad news for our community,” Kolia said. He stressed that more vigilance is needed to make sure kids in the building are safe. “Parents must learn from this death today,” Kolia said. “It’s a very serious matter.” He said some residents may have removed the safety locks to add air conditioning to their apartments and said every unit will be inspected going forward to make sure that the safety locks are in place.
