Gone..........Finally !!

If you care to check back to my posting on
August 22, 2009 you will find the story of the
house next door burning to the ground in the
middle of the night... Now eight (8) months
later the powers that be have finally gotten
around to tearing down the remaining sections
of the old house. At the time of the fire there
was no gas or electricity supplied to the empty
dwelling, so it was a surprise to all that it
'suddenly' caught fire in the late hours of the
night. The house has been tied up in a legal
hassle between the city, owner, and the insurance
company. Fire Department officials told me it
was obviously a set fire,...but who did it? Several
neighbors have complained about the burnt
smell in the area and city fathers finally decided
to pull the plug on the 80 year old home. Reese
Demolitions is doing the work and after preparing
on Monday, the house came down on Tuesday.
Four men and a back-hoe machine did the deed,
and now all that is left is the cleaning up. The old
house had a wood floor on a pier and beam foundation
and the floor supported the back-hoe machine
without a problem. That's the way they used to
build them. One of the workers told me it will take
about ten truck loads to clear the debris from the
property. We are glad to see it go. Every time it
rained it was just like the night it burned with the
smell of smoke filling the neighborhood.