FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) — A former turkey farm in Fresno has become a growing hazard.

If you’ve driven passed it, you have most likely seen the shocking amount of debris scattered on the property.

The city ordered the property owner to hire a demolition team to clean up this area.

It’s also an area that has had multiple fires in the past, the most recent one happening this morning.

Now the demolition team says the property owner doesn’t want to pay up.

“I mean, look at this place. It’s an eyesore,” said Kaci Platt, Ihde Business owner.

Since April, Ihde Demolition, a local family-owned business, has been trying to clear this eyesore.

But in November, work stopped.

The company says the property owner left them in the dark.

“You don’t hire a contractor, and then halfway through, say, you know what, I can’t pay for this,” said Platt.

Kaci says this isn’t just hurting her pockets, but it’s also causing headaches in the city.

According to the Fresno Fire Department, there have been 12 fires in the last 13 months on that property.

Anytime there’s a fire, it takes fire resources to extinguish that, and that means that those resources aren’t available for other emergencies within the city,” said Joshua Sellers, Fresno Fire Department Public Information Officer.

The department was unable to provide me with the cause of the fires, but they do say that unhoused activity in the area is common.

“I’m pretty sure the fire prevention has been working with code enforcement to address some of the issues,” said Sellers.

The most recent incident happened on Wednesday morning, fire crews were called out to the same site…

It took 2 hours to get it under control.

Once the smoke cleared, Kaci contacted the property owner, to whom they said: This is bad, this is arson.

Kaci turned to the city, but says it’s been an uphill battle.

“The city’s forcing the owner to demolish it, to begin with, when we originally started, and we got everything going, and then we kind of just got, we got stuck in the middle of a city and property owner dispute,” said Platt.

Now, Kaci is hoping to finish the job to leave this mess behind her.

We are a small company. We’re not like these big guys out there. It’s just me and him and a couple of workers,

So it’s just kind of moving it forward and getting to the next step, just to get in and out of here.