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Abandoned homes and buildings have been a problem in both rural and urban areas across the country for decades, and people losing their homes during the pandemic made the issue even more evident.
The St. Louis Fire Department is creating a software database tracking conditions of vacant buildings. Officials hope to launch the safety program in April.
Thick smoke billowed from the vacant, crumbling St. Louis house, but Benjamin Polson knew homeless people might be inside taking refuge from the January
The database will provide first-responders with information when they are pulling up to the scene of a fire in a vacant building.
ST. LOUIS—Thick smoke billowed from the vacant, crumbling St. Louis house, but Benjamin Polson knew homeless people might ...