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2 hours ago
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Cleanup begins for fire pile, an eyesore that sat untouched for 8 months
Crews are finally cleaning up piles of debris after a fire destroyed the Cornell Meat Market eight months ago. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] News Center 7's Mike Campbell visits the lot as work to clean up the destroyed building begins LIVE on News Center 7 at 5:30 p.m. The people who live near the former meat market have been frustrated after cleanup was delayed for months. The former site owner hired a contractor after heavy pressure from the city, but it still took a week of stops and starts to see any progress. TRENDING STORIES: Officer shoots armed man after he runs from them; Police to provide update Israel strikes Iran; 'All of Israel under attack' from retaliatory missiles Over 400K driver's license suspensions removed under new Ohio law Crews have been telling the city for the past five days that clean up would begin, but there have been unexpected delays. Monday, the contractors didn't have the proper environmental structure. Tuesday, they didn't have a required water meter, so they could spray the site, if needed. Thursday, they learned the nearest fire hydrant wouldn't work with their equipment. Friday, fixes for their fire hydrant problem failed until the afternoon. 'Friday, we had completed the removal of all the fencing, all the barriers, so they could start Monday,' Steve Gondol, who works for the City of Dayton, said. Gondol says there have been a lot of obstacles getting to this stage after the market burned down last Halloween. The city finally began the legal process in March to force the former owner to coordinate cleanup after not getting cooperation. Meanwhile, the mountains of debris sat, posing a hazard to curious kids, and was the source of trash blowing into nearby yards. Not to mention it became an illegal dumping ground until the city put up the fences. People who live nearby are upset the market is gone. 'Yeah, it is kind of sad about it, how it happened, how it burned down,' Derrick Porter from Dayton said. But they're ready for an eyesore to be erased. 'For people to get started with this stuff, I guess hey, it's a good thing. It's a good thing when stuff comes together like that,' Porter said. Once the working crews work through all their delays, the cleanup will not be a fast, overnight process. Contractors estimate it could take between two to four weeks to remove the piles of debris from the site to EPA approved landfills. The City of Dayton says it has close to 70 fire piles that need to be cleaned up. Since these are all vacant buildings with no owner, the city will have to pay for the cleanup process, which is estimated to cost around $30,000 per pile. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
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2 days ago
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After months of frustration, clean-up of burned-down market begins
Eight months later, cleanup is finally about to begin on a former supermarket destroyed in a fire. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The high-pitched whine of a commercial dumpster being dropped never sounded so good to people living close to the former Cornell Meat Market. 'It's a good thing when stuff comes together like that,' Derrick Porter said. Porter lives next to the former supermarket. TRENDING STORIES: Woman unable to walk, sues hospital after surgeon operated on the wrong knee Motorcyclist dies after crashing, falling 25 feet 30-year-old gored by bison while visiting Yellowstone National Park A fire roared through the long-time community gathering spot last October. The total devastation forced city crews to do an emergency demolition, but the owner did not begin clean-up efforts. The city put a fence around the area and was forced to start legal proceedings to get action. The lawyer for a former property owner claimed he sold it weeks before the fire, but is cleaning it up in good faith. He said cleanup has been slow because 'the City of Dayton requires commercial property owners to treat every ounce of debris as asbestos.' An aerial view shows the massive mess, and fire piles in teh middle of a neighborhood. City inspectors said that treating debris as if it contains asbestos is actually a federal and state environmental regulation. Not a city ordinance. We will continue to follow this story. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
