Memo to an ex: “I never want to hear your name/ I never want to see your face/ Get out of my dreams/ Get out of my head/ Get out of my heart/ & get out of my bed.”Paul Bass reports.
Winners announced in Compost Heap Indies awards for best profiles in “preservationist” pap, pusillanimity, and persistence. (Pictured: trophies.) Paul Bass reports.
126 Sheffield. The fire department found it is "very well possible" that someone in the basement "improperly discarded a cigarette end at the floor near the wall that surrounded the oil tank."
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City fire investigator Reyes (second from left) with property manager David Kone, at the scene of the Jan. 31 blaze. One of the six tenants displaced in the fire, who is now homeless, previously lost his home in a different Xu-house fire.
Either a cigarette or mixed wiring could have ignited a mattress in a basement of a Newhallville three-family house that burst into flames earlier this year.
Those details are included in a newly released report that sheds light on what may have caused just the latest of five fires in two years at different properties controlled by Bethany-based landlord Jianchao Xu.
