Residents on Decatur Avenue say they\u2019re facing a new setback weeks after a fire tore through their building \u2014 their gas has now been shut off.<\/p>\n
Tenants told News 12 the utility was cut off Wednesday following what management says was a fire-related gas leak \u2014 nearly three weeks after the March 17 blaze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a bad headache, and my pressure has been up ever since,\u201d said resident Doretha Cameron. \u201cAnd we still suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notices posted throughout the building say management \u2014 identified as CYA Management \u2014 is providing hot plates for tenants to cook while repairs are underway. But residents say the transition hasn\u2019t been easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thing is how you cut the gas off three weeks later \u2014 no notice, no nothing,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cY\u2019all sent everything after the fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
It remains unclear why the gas shutoff happened weeks after the fire or how long service will be out. News 12 has reached out to management and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n
The gas outage adds to ongoing challenges for tenants still dealing with damage from the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf not for the Red Cross, I would\u2019ve been in trouble,\u201d said Harry Barnwell, who is staying in a temporary unit after his apartment was destroyed, damaged by water FDNY used to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n
Barnwell said he feared he lost his cat, Missy, in the fire \u2014 but after searching through debris inside his apartment, he made an emotional discovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I pushed the mattress back, I found her,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was under all that rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, residents say they\u2019re doing what they can \u2014 relying on hot plates and makeshift meals \u2014 while waiting for answers when gas service will be restored.<\/p>\n
News 12 is continuing to press management for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents on Decatur Avenue say they\u2019re facing a new setback weeks after a fire tore through their building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[9377,128,543,545,544,9,24,11038,63,3738,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-184138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-building-fire","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-norwood","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-taking-action","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}