My friend Jack Harris, (photographer) was woken this morning to the sounds of sirens and lights as his neighbors home caught on fire. You'll see more of this, (NOT) in the Daily Times tomorrow. This is one main reason why it is so difficult to be a Volunteer, fires in the middle of the night and or very early in the morning.
Fortunately, no one was injured and the SFD is still on the scene doing their job.
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Probably fortunate that it was very early--if it was during morning rush hour there is no way any firetrucks could get through Mill Street?Rt.50/Riverside/Carroll hellish intersection in a hurry. Guess it pays to ive in Newtown area now for fire safety!
Fortunately, the family was able to get out ok. This is a perfect example showing why residential housing needs to be restricted, though. These houses near campus, many of them packed with college students, were not built as boarding houses. God forbid a fire like this breaks out in one of the houses with students living in the basement and in the attic--they would not stand a chance. Richard Insley, his housing board, and the housing inspectors should view this as a wake-up call. Your jobs are important, and your steady refusal to enforce Salisbury's housing ordinances could result in a tragedy. How well would you sleep after that, Mr Insley? How about you, Mayor Tilghman?
Whose home? How can we help?
I drove by this house at lunch hour. It's just a couple of doors down from the one that burned (the infamous Doug Church house) a couple years ago, sending a coed to Hopkins. She was lucky to live.
Those bastards all sleep just fine at night. Money first and conscience, what conscience? JMHO.
One thing about the house that just burned, I don't know who's living in it now, but it is a rental. The former superintendent of Wicomico schools, Evelyn Holman, owns it, but she's in New York somewhere.
The coed ed was sent to PRMC not Hopkins.
She is lucky to be alive for her bedroom was in the attic and you had to go through a closet in a second floor bedroom to get to her.
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