Property Owner Citied for Fire Code Violations

Ocean City, Maryland – : The Town of Ocean City’s Fire Marshal’s Office recently cited an Ocean City property owner for several fire code violations after receiving a complaint for unsafe conditions. Curtis A. Andrews, owner of the Bridgeview Apartments, located in the 200 block of North Division Street, was issued citations in the amount of $3,250 for multiple fire safety violations.

Deputy Fire Marshal’s responded to the two story, multi-family dwelling in March 2016, and conducted an on-site fire safety inspection. During the inspection, numerous violations were witnessed by investigators, including the improper installation of a gas water heater, failure to provide a working smoke alarm inside of an occupied dwelling unit, failure to provide a carbon monoxide alarm in the laundry room with fuel burning equipment and accumulations of waste.

Safety violations were immediately repaired by order of the Fire Marshal. In addition, Andrews was required to have the water heaters inspected by a third party inspector prior to use.

“The improper installation of fuel burning appliances and lack of working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms can be deadly,” said Ocean City Fire Marshal David Hartley. “The Office of the Fire Marshal takes fire safety code violations seriously and strictly maintains a ‘zero tolerance’ position. We expect that all property owners to know and abide by these polices.”