Eric Marentette News Today

Dozens of Portland firefighters battled a blaze at a former tavern that neighbors say had been taken over by squatters for more than a year."It was clearly a time bomb waiting to go off, and our concerns fell through the cracks," Dusty McCord, who lives near the former Farmer's Barn Tavern, told The Oregonian. "The

An abandoned Portland tavern has been crawling with squatters and criminal activity for more than a year, according to neighbors. Then it went up in flames.

The abandoned Farmer's Barn Tavern burned to the ground this week in a blaze sparked by squatters who had been harassing the crime-riddled community for more than a year.