Fire Officials Concerned About Foreclosed Properties Being Safety Hazards

Fire officials are concerned that foreclosed properties are not only eyesores but also safety hazards

. These are putting entire neighbourhoods at risk. It is the banks and the lenders that now own them who should be responsible for them.

The fire departments of Leominster and Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts have been responding to emergency summons concerning foreclosed houses recently in the third week of December. On 18th December there was a massive gas leak in a vacant house on 6th Street compelling the fire prevention authorities to ask the neighbours to vacate their houses and place barricades on the streets.

Commenting on the situation Deputy Chief Alfred Kirouac said, It was dangerous and deadly, just as it sat.

In another incident on a recent Sunday the firefighters of Fitchburg put out a suspicious blaze in a vacant house on Chestrnut Street said Chief Kevin Roy.

The incidents are frequent and severe. The mortgage holders are largely responsible for this but many of them do a good job in securing the foreclosed units but many others are not so vigilant. Kirouac said, A lot of it seems to depend on the city or town youre in, the area of the city and town youre in. If the property is worth some dough, theyre going to take care of it, if it looks like a loser to them, they seem to cut their losses.

Kirouac said that the increase in copper prices has resulted in more theft and burglary in the past few years. The thieves sell the copper pipes and it is convenient to yank them off abandoned houses. This is what most probably happened in the property lying vacant on Sixth Street.

The police of Leominster suspect that copper thieves must have sneaked in to burgle and without knowing it cut a gas pipe. The gas must have leaked for days before the odour came to be reported. All it needed was a spark to become deadly.

Another incident took place in Milk Street of Fitchburg in 2009; here again the target was copper pipes. It led to high levels of gas leak blowing through the entire neighbourhood. It is up to the mortgage holders to see to the turning off of gas as soon as the property undergoes foreclosure.

Kirouac said, Who figures somebodys going to come in and bust the gas pipes up? But its something they probably ought to give some consideration to in the future. People are going into these places and stripping them off copper.

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