Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Another foreclosed home burns in Atlanta

[marmar]

By Larry Hartstein and John Spink
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


A foreclosed home caught fire in northwest Atlanta Thursday morning, a month after the family moved out.

No one was hurt in the major 8 a.m. blaze in the 400 block of Oliver Street. An initial report of an entrapment turned out to be false.

"We've got a lot of vacant structures over here, a transient population, so things happen," Atlanta Fire Battalion Chief Bryant Tate said.

Neighbor Raquel Blossomgame told the AJC the family had lived in the house for several years until the bank foreclosed last month.

"There are a lot of vacant houses over here, a lot of foreclosures, and it's really up to the government to take control of this," she said. "People don't make the money they used to."


http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/another-foreclosed-home-burns-791130.html

[hlthe2b]

1. Expect more of the same (and it certainly isn't Sherman doing this)

;)

[delightfulstar]

2. One has to wonder...

If another homeless person may have been "squatting," or if the former owners were unhappy. Or, given some of the other construction issues that occurred in that part of the country (like the mold problems), if something was inherently wrong with the house, which caused it to burn. As long as the banks continue to foreclose, this will probably continue to happen, sadly.