Tenants Move Back To Fire-Damaged Apartment Tower
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Updated: June 20, 2012
After more than a week of being homeless, over 100 people moved back into the fire-damaged Plaza Towers early Wednesday afternoon.
The fire on June 11 killed a 72 year-old woman. Tenants in the nine story building had to be evacuated. Most stayed with family and friends, 30 had to relay on the Arkansas Chapter of the American Red Cross which put them up in a local church.
Tariq Ferguson was moving his family back into their apartment.
"I have deep concerns...not knowing the cause of the fire is deeply alarming," he said, adding he would rather live in a house.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire which firefighters contained to one unit.
Fifteen insurance investigators along with electrical engineers and city building code inspectors are working with the state fire marshal to figure out how the fire started.
The Little Rock Fire Department has said the building passed its fire inspection last year.
The apartment complex did not have a fire sprinkler system and was not required to have one because it was built before the city's building code was amended to make such systems a requirement.
The fire on June 11 killed a 72 year-old woman. Tenants in the nine story building had to be evacuated. Most stayed with family and friends, 30 had to relay on the Arkansas Chapter of the American Red Cross which put them up in a local church.
Tariq Ferguson was moving his family back into their apartment.
"I have deep concerns...not knowing the cause of the fire is deeply alarming," he said, adding he would rather live in a house.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire which firefighters contained to one unit.
Fifteen insurance investigators along with electrical engineers and city building code inspectors are working with the state fire marshal to figure out how the fire started.
The Little Rock Fire Department has said the building passed its fire inspection last year.
The apartment complex did not have a fire sprinkler system and was not required to have one because it was built before the city's building code was amended to make such systems a requirement.
