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If there's an emergency in a nearby neighborhood, EMS vehicles will have to use the same access road as people trying to get to Lakeside Ashland.
This is the first story in a four-part series. Read the second, third and fourth stories. Blocked exit pathways. Leaking roofs. Decaying walls and ceilings. Faulty plumbing. These are just some of the alleged problems at two Vickery Meadow apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas, home to many refugees who have just recently arrived in the U.S.
STOW, Mass. —State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey offered a fire safety reminder to homeowners and others who plan on using mulch in upcoming landscaping...
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - After numerous code violations were found at the Sunray Hotel in South Lake Tahoe on March 7, the City of South Lake Tahoe gave the owners 30 days to address a list of items that needed to be corrected. On April 13, City staff returned to the Lake Tahoe Boulevard motel used by local weekly and monthly renters.
Apartment but also the one to the stairwell. the fire was contained to that apartment. the smoke went up and people tried to escape and became suffocated and blinded by the heavy fire. that's the fire code, also the fire alarms. we were told by many residents coming to the scene today that the fire alarms are always going off and it's sort of like second nature. they don't even think about it. a lot of people didn't respond to this fire because they heard the fire alarms going off again and didn't think that it was actually a fire. they saw smoke coming underneath their door and that's when th...