Fire Hazards
400 W Terrace DR
- Case Date:
- 6/19/2024
Large fire at 10:10pm on June 19, 2024, in the woods along the Rail Trail. The homeless camp on City-owned property (according to the GIS) is burning a large, open fire this evening. This is on the Rail Trail north of Gordon Pike maybe 0.3 to 0.4 miles, east and south of the Terrace Drive area. This is a significant hazard to the City property and neighboring private property. The fires need to stop and the camps need to be cleared out immediately before the homeless burn acres of woods, fences, sheds, houses, trailers -- anything in the vicinity could go up in flames soon.
Fire Hazards
400 W Terrace DR
- Case Date:
- 6/20/2024
Response to 189024 -- If the fires are happening daily at the homeless camp along the Rail Trail, and the fire department (MFPD) has been out twice this month, yet the fires continue, why would there not be an option to take some level of preventative enforcement action as opposed to reactive only that is not solving the underlying issue? This would be a daily call to 911 if people in the area called every time there was a large, illegal fire. Is that the best use of resources, as opposed to the City cleaning the area up, removing those illegally burning on City property, and preventing any future fires from being started by those illegally camping on the property? The City refuses to address the problem, the county has to roll a truck out here due to the City's inaction, and the adjacent property owners suffer. All to protect illegal activity!
Fire Hazards
3410 S Kennedy DR
- Case Date:
- 8/28/2024
Yard waste has been there for weeks and it now is extremely dry and ready to ignite.
Fire Hazards
3410 S Kennedy DR
- Case Date:
- 8/28/2024
Yard waste has been there for weeks and it now is extremely dry and ready to ignite.
Fire Hazards
3214 E Moores PIKE
- Case Date:
- 3/30/2022
There's several fallen trees and branches on the wires here
Fire Hazards
316 E University ST
- Case Date:
- 9/11/2023
I have detected ground fault issues in 7 of my 14 outlets in the residence, apartment 25. And I detected numerous ground fault issues in apartment 29 as well. My cat found this issue on the night of September 6 after scent spraying a power outlet. The breaker failed to prevent an overload, a fire started, and I had to manually throw the breaker myself to kill power to the malfunctioning outlet. I believe the landlord is cognizant of the issue as one of the 3 replaced outlets was never discussed as damaged or of issue.
Fire Hazards
2608 E 3rd ST
- Case Date:
- 9/7/2024
Today I visited the Dollar Tree on the East side. I was there around 2pm. The store had multiple aisles overcrowded with boxes of stock needing unpacked. One aisle in general was completely full from one end to the other. This is the aisle in the photo. Other aisles had boxes on carts throughout and had a path to weave through. I understand that they are understaffed but this felt very unsafe. If there was a fire I do believe it could be difficult to get through the store to get out. It felt unsafe. I'm not sure if it is considered a fire hazard but in case it is I wanted to let you know about it.
Fire Hazards
2568 E 3rd ST
- Case Date:
- 5/24/2024
I was shopping in the dollar tree store the other day and there was boxes all over the floor in the aisle ways. There was uboats also all over the store making it hard to shop. I passed by the stock room and the doors where propped open and I could see the boxies where stacked almost to the ceiling and where falling all over the place. I could see that the back door was also blocked by uboats and boxies.
Fire Hazards
2524 S Rogers ST
- Case Date:
- 8/24/2020
Tenant using fire pit to burn trash in their backyard inside city limits:
2521 S Rogers St. Previous tenant burned a lot of stuff before they moved. The new tenant must think it's ok also.
Fire Hazards
2303 S Rockport RD
- Case Date:
- 11/3/2023
Burning a lot of wood in open fire outside.