closed #125173
Fire Hazards
Road 31
- Case Date:
- 2/26/2012
Exit light out
Exit light out
Large items blocking stairway on deck.
The Woods at Latimer apartment complex has smoke detectors in units that are up to 10 years expired. Included photo are ones removed from our unit. Maintenance claims to only replace them when residents request, since "they still work" and "It's easier to leave old ones up than go into every unit and put new ones in". When batteries in these expired ones died, we alerted maintenance and they said to take them out and just "not start a fire" overnnight, as they would be out to replace them in the morning since it wasn't considered an emergency to not have working smoke detectors in the unit.
There is an open campfire back in the woods at 39.14547x8655090W. It is in a homeless encampment in the woods. It has not rained for weeks. There is dry brush everywhere.
I smell a campfire in the vicinity near the fence on the north boundary of the park.
There is evidence of campfire on county owned woods North of RCA Park
Live fires nightly with noxious fumes and firefighters cannot access behind my home in event of an emergency. Please come see the situation fir yourself. It's dangerous. We are unsafe due to people squatting on public property yet allowed to break the law with open fires, territorial dogs, shouting and cursing all day, using the forest for a toilet.... Please come see. Help us property owners especially with 4th of July coming up. In case of fire or emergency, services have no access. That is simply unacceptable. Please help.
Dried tree limbs
Description is on attachment.
Persistent problems in Waterman Addition: 1. Unpainted curbs by fire hydrants 1301 W. 8th 1524 W. 8th 1680 W. 8th 2. Hydrant Paint codes missing or ambiguous blue - 1301 W 8th original grey - 1323 W. 8th original grey - 321 N. Hopewell red - 1524 W. 8th original grey - 1680 W. 8th red/yellow? - 1723 W. 8th red/yellow? - 1625 W. 7th