Just when you thought you’d seen it all this situation arises. Without going into all the details, our Fire Marshal was summoned to a single family house in an established part of our city. Neighbors alerted him to a house without windows or doors and snow accumulating inside.
To make a long story short this property is in a dispute and somebody came in and removed all the doors, windows, furnace and even the stair treads!
Our Fire Marshal along with our Building Official took action and had the home secured and are working with the mortgage holder to get the situation resolved. Property rights issues are always sticky, but our mission is to get the house into a safe condition for the neighbors and get the structure back into a condition so it can be used again. We don’t see this very often in our city, but we have the tools to get it resolved in accordance with the legal remedies available to us.
