The house in Shaker Heights where a 65-year-old woman was killed in a fire just before Christmas must be repaired or demolished. The city has declared the house a public nuisance.
The fire was caused by a space heater in a children’s bedroom that was too close to things that could easily burn.
"It's horrible because we went two months — my family, me and, my children — went two months without heat in that house,” Tyshawn Vaugh said.“She wakes up crying. She wakes up crying and talks about the fire a lot,” Vaughn said. The landlord’s attorney says the first-floor tenant called about the broken furnace in November and his client sent someone out to take a look, but didn’t have it fixed after learning the tenant was to move on the first of December.
Vaughn says he and his family had threatened to leave because things weren’t being fixed, but planned to stay through March. Code violations from a 2019 inspection included a need for photoelectric smoke detectors, which use a light beam to detect smoke from smoldering fires, and the removal of kitchen appliances from the third floor, along with the discontinuation of the use of extension cords.The owner must now submit plans to the city to either fix what the fire destroyed and correct all outstanding code violations or demolish the house.
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