Thursday, September 28, 2017

Squatter killed in Richmond Hill blaze

From QNS:

Fire marshals and police are investigating a fire at a vacant Richmond Hill home on Tuesday night where an unidentified man was found dead.

Law enforcement sources said the blaze broke out at around 9:50 p.m. on Sept. 26 inside the boarded-up residence located on 114th Street between 95th and 101st avenues.

More than 60 firefighters and officers from the 102nd Precinct responded to the inferno. After putting the fire, police said, firefighters found the unidentified adult male while searching the dwelling’s second floor.

The man was pulled from the home and pronounced dead by EMS units. His body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

According to the New York Daily News, the residence had been vacant for some time, but Buildings Department records indicated that there had been complaints of squatters residing there in recent years.


JQ LLC said...

That was actually a nice house once.

There are a lot of zombie houses in Richmond Hill. Recall just a few weeks ago when a council candidate was featured in a report on 2 abandoned houses on Lefferts Blvd.

Eastern Queens is getting redlined, except by the Jamaica transit hub stations, where the city and developers are constructing some lame version of Las Vegas.

Res Ipsa said...

"There had been complaints about squatters in recent YEARS" and the City did nothing. This ended the way everyone thought it would and they're just lucky the fire was stopped before it spread and claimed more lives. Why is the government always asleep at the wheel on these issues?

Anonymous said...

I looked very hard at this picture, using the rotation and zoom features.

This can't be the ghetto, there are no sneakers hanging from the telephone lines!

Anonymous said...

The law states that a squatter becomes a permanent tenant after 30 days then the owner has to go to court to get them out that could take 6 months.