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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) - Fire crews battled a blaze at the Green Lake Apartments in Orchard Park on Monday that forced residents out into the cold. Smoke coming from the apartments on North Lake Drive could be seen for miles. The fire chief says the blaze appears to have started in an attached first-floor garage before spreading up through the building and collapsing the roof. The three-story building is a total loss. No one was hurt. Orchard Park Police were able to alert residents to the fire and evacuate those who were home in the nine- unit apartment building . Some pets perished in the blaze. Several fire companies , including East Aurora and Hamburg, were called in to help fight the fire. There was only one hydrant in front of the apartments and crews had to run multiple lines from South Buffalo Street to bring water to the blaze. On top of that, crews were dealing with the extreme cold. Orchard Park Fire Chief Richard Mrugalski said, "That's why we have the N...

Wed October 14 2015 9:19 pm &nbsphttp://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/?p=75721   Share The Cardinal -- Arlingtoncardinal.com Articles  (E-Mail, Facebook, Twitter & More)&nbsp Hoffman Estates police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:02 PM Wednesday to a report of an apartment fire at Barrington Lakes Apartments , 2110 Hassell Rd Hoffman Estates , Il. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report of a stove fire in an apartment kitchen on the first floor. Firefighters on arrival reported smoke showing from the front of the building. Interior firefighters reported a small fire primarily contained to the broiler, but with some damage to kitchen cabinets. Firefighters checked for extension to walls and ventilated the units and hallway by 9:07 p.m.. Initially, no reports of any injuries. ENGINE(S): E21 E22 E24 TRUCK(S): T22 SQUAD(S): SQD22 CHIEF(S): BC6 EMS: A21 A22 A23 A24 LIVE TRAFFIC MAP of neighborhood to a report of an apartment fire at Barrington Lakes A...

About 100 people were ordered out of two squalid Temple Hills condominium buildings Tuesday , but a group of defiant residents said they are not leaving because they have nowhere to go. Fire officials warned the manager, owners and tenants of Lynnhill Condominiums last week about multiple fire-code violations, including towering piles of garbage in trash chutes and trash storage rooms , inoperable fire doors and a broken alarm system . The seven-story twin-tower complex on Good Hope Avenue has struggled with finances and repairs for more than a decade. Utility companies have periodically shut off water and power over unpaid bills, and the Prince George’s County government has taken the condominium association to court repeatedly over code violations. “We want to avoid an Oakland or London situation,” said Thomas Himler, a top aide to County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D), referring to two recent deadly fires at decrepit buildings in those cities. “This is a life and safe...

CHARLESTON, SC - The RADCO Companies , one of the nation’s leading opportunistic real estate developers , completed its sixth acquisition of 2017 with the closing of Woodbridge Apartment Homes in Charleston, South Carolina . This is RADCO’s 72nd acquisition since 2011, its seventh community in South Carolina , and its second community in the Charleston market.The 198-unit, Class B property has been renamed Radius at West Ashley. Radius at West Ashley will be proudly managed by RADCO Residential, the Company’s proprietary management platform . Radius at West Ashley is favorably located in the heart of the West Ashley submarket of Charleston, just minutes away from downtown Charleston, College of Charleston, MUSC, and scenic South Carolina beaches . The community’s location and accessibility to major roads allows for an easy commute to the area’s major office facilities and employers, including Boeing. Additionally, Charleston was also recently ranked the 8th best place in t...

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin has asked the city attorney to explore legislation to impose a vacancy tax on large property owners who leave residential and commercial buildings empty . During a supervisors meeting this month, Peskin said he continues to receive complaints about the impact of “ghost buildings” on neighborhoods. The problem is, nobody really knows how many vacant homes there are in the city and whether a vacancy tax would be legal or effective in freeing up much-needed housing. In an interview, Peskin cited a 28- unit apartment building at 1656 Powell St. that was vacated after a fire damaged some units in December 2013. It remains empty. The three-story building is in a prime North Beach location across from Washington Square Park . Four businesses on the building’s ground floor — a liquor store, a bar, a Thai restaurant and a seafood restaurant — are open, but the apartments above still have boarded-up windows and a littered lobby. Some work was done in the...

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Insurance has created an insurance checklist to help college students and their parents ensure appropriate financial protections are in place for the upcoming school year . “Life away from home is a great opportunity for young adults to learn and grow, but it also presents considerations and challenges,” said Department Director Jillian Froment . “It is important that students and parents conduct an insurance review and consider including an insurance agent in the process.” Froment shared the following insurance information: Illness and Injury Dependent coverage - Any insurance plan or issuer that offers dependent coverage must remain available until the dependent reaches age 26 . If it’s a managed care plan , the student could be outside the provider network area and would have to travel within the area to receive routine and lower-priced in-network care. Student plan - Most colleges and universities require students to have hea...

Targeted News Service (Press Releases) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 18 -- The Ohio Department of Insurance issued the following news release: The Ohio Department of Insurance has created an insurance checklist to help college students and their parents ensure appropriate financial protections are in place for the upcoming school year , department director Jillian Froment said. "Life away from home is a great opportunity for young adults to learn and grow, but it also presents considerations and challenges," Froment said. "It is important that students and parents conduct an insurance review and consider including an insurance agent in the process." Froment shared the following insurance information: Illness and Injury Dependent coverage * Any insurance plan or issuer that offers dependent coverage must remain available until the dependent reaches age 26 . If it's a managed care plan , the student could be outside the provider network area and would have to travel ...

WINSTON-SALEM- The city of Winston-Salem says it's stepping in to deal with problems at the Rolling Hills apartment complex . City officials say they're going to start assessing heavy fines over problems like leaky toilets and other issues at the apartments off Martin Luther King drive . For years the units at Rolling Hills apartments have gone through inspections and Winston- Salem city leader say for years a majority of them failed. City Councilman Derwin Montgomery said the city had been fair to ownership. "They're the worst I've seen in Rolling Hills over the time I've been on council and seen some of the issues we've had there,” said Montgomery. On Thursday, they made it clear they won't stand for negligent property managers after 110 units went through inspections, yet again. "Out of those, more than 90 of those units found violations of minimum housing code . Orders have been sent out to the owners to repair those units,” said Montgom...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Insurance has created an insurance checklist to help college students and their parents ensure appropriate financial protections are in place for the upcoming school year . Department director Jillian Froment shares the following insurance information: ILLNESS AND INJURY Dependent coverage — Any insurance plan or issuer that offers dependent coverage must remain available until the dependent reaches age 26 . If it’s a managed care plan , the student could be outside the provider network area and would have to travel within the area to receive routine and lower-priced in-network care. Student plan — Most colleges and universities require students to have health insurance . Students without dependent coverage may opt to purchase a student health insurance plan . These plans may have limited benefits and exclusions leaving coverage holes to possibly fill by purchasing an additional policy. DENTAL AND EYE CARE Routine dental care and eye care g...

Published: Thursday, August 24, 2017 @ 2:28 PM By: Kaitlin Schroeder - Staff Writer The first health and human services secretary under President Barack Obama stopped in Dayton Thursday as part of a larger campaign to support the Affordable Care Act as it remains under fire from President Donald Trump ’s administration. Former Secretary Kathleen Sebelius , a Cincinnati native, said part of the reason for the bus tour, dubbed “Save My Care,” is because the fight over whether to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is not over, despite the failed effort to pass a bill in July that would repeal parts of the ACA. “Part of it is to say this battle is a long way from being over because you still have a president and party leaders who say ‘We’re going to go right back and try to do this again when the Senate reconvenes,’” she said. LOCAL NEWS: New coffee shop opens in downtown Dayton In Ohio, Sen. Rob Portman voted for the GOP measure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act...

More prosaically, co-living can simply mean roommates and common rooms, like a dorm. For some developers, it’s a form of adaptive reuse: many co-living sites, like WeLive at 110 Wall Street , are leased, in this case from the landlord of what once was an office building, drained of its tenants by Hurricane Sandy. Slide Show Adventures in Co-Living Credit Photographs by Andrew White for The New York Times There are still co-living evangelists, like Brad Hargreaves of Common, who has promised that “the genuine and organic relationships our members build with each other,” as he wrote in a post for Medium, would not be tainted by allowing journalists to sleep over at Common properties (though they were welcome to tour). With over $23 million in financing, Common now operates in five cities, including out of eight houses in New York City. Some co-living ventures have collapsed under the weight of their ideals, like the utopian Pure House , started by Ryan Fix, now 42, in his Williamsburg l...

The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club .  I'm sitting in the lobby of the Players Club, in Manhattan's Gramercy Park, waiting to meet my interview subject. She is a longtime celebrity assistant , a profession that is both hard to find and incredibly difficult to convince to talk to you about. I'm in the lobby because in order to walk past the entrance of the Players Club you have to be escorted by a member, and I'm waiting because her principal, which I will later learn is a fancy word that celebrity assistants use to describe their bosses, landed after a long flight with a laundry list of things he needed to talk about immediately.  It's during this time that my mind starts to wander to that classic and brutal  Brad Pitt movie.  The Players Club reminds me of Fight Club, if Fight Club took place in a Gothic revival mansion facing the only Manhattan park so exclusive that one needs a key to enter. And replace the barren cement walks with...