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Bad Landlords of the U.S.A. and Bad Landlords from Hell. Part 1.
December of 2007
WEB BROADCAST SERVICES
CHANNEL 14 NEWS
Allegations of Abuse Caught on Film
New developments have taken place at Executive Square House reportedly involving the same property manager, Odis Coleman.
Executive Square House was a major topic in a prior news report titled "Fires Rage in Hartford Connecticut" where a near disaster took place involving the reckless endangerment of 240 elderly and disabled tenants.
Tenants of Executive Square House filed complaints with authorities in 2005 regarding the reported fire hazards. Tenants took photographs of the actual hazards as proof of the reckless endangerment allegations.
The same property manager, Odis Coleman, using a supposed " inspection clause" of the tenants lease, is the subject of a new rash of complaints involving tenants and their relatives. The complaints graphically outline random unannounced forced entries of tenant’s apartments, searching closets, cabinets, bedrooms and bathrooms. Reportedly the property manager then proceeds to take pictures of tenant’s bathrooms and bedrooms in disarray as though they are in violation of some code when of course, they are not. The complaints also outline other unusual behavior as well as taking pictures of tenants with next to no clothes on, ramming tenants bare feet and limbs with doors upon forced entry and making swift hand arm gestures to see if the tenant will flinch or swing at him.
Video footage taken by a victimized tenant who has asked the sound track be muted and had previously been victimized shows the alleged property manager in their home after a forced entry, going from room to room in their home taking photographs of their belongings, bedrooms and bathrooms.
Reportedly the property manager Odis Coleman, has openly chosen to engage in open intimidation and retaliation against tenants entrusted to his care, and specifically targets those who he believes has filed complaints against him.
Executive Square House is subsidized low income housing for the elderly and chronicle disabled located in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
FIRES RAGE IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT
THE CONTINUING SAGA OF BAD LANDLORDS
Hartford, Connecticut 2007
WEB BROADCAST SERVICES
CHANNEL 14 NEWS
Hartford Connecticut has had to respond to too many high-profile fires in its history.
Most notable is the 1944 circus fire that killed 168 and chronically disabled 373 more. Most were children.
Hartford Connecticut has also had to respond to too many high-profile fires involving the elderly.
The first is The Niles Street Convalescent Hospital Fire of December 24, 1945 which left 21 dead. The second is The Hartford Hospital Fire of December 8, 1961, which left 16 dead. This fire was the result of a flash fire in a trash chute.
The third is The Greenwood Health Center Fire, Hartford Connecticut, February 26, 2003, which left 16 dead.
Arson was supposedly to blame . This fire is the most famous, now known worldwide.
Among those killed was a 17 year old boy who had been in a coma; 23 more are now permanently disabled by high intensity burns and the inhalation of smoke and toxic fumes of burning plastics.
December 24 of 2006 marks the anniversary of Executive Square House, of Wethersfield Connecticut, a town adjacent to Hartford. Executive Square is where a near disaster took place involving an industrial sized waste container filed with flammable and highly flammable construction waste.
Fire Hazards Caught On Film.
Located behind Executive Square House, a 12 story apartment building that houses the elderly and disabled.
All flammable articles or highly flammable articles, the debris in the 30 ft long industrial container are located directly underneath tenants living and bedroom areas.
The property manager of Executive Square House responsible for the reckless endangerment of 240 elderly tenants, identified as Odis Coleman, is pictured.
Executive Square House is housing for the elderly and disabled, most are with income at the poverty level or below.
The reported reason the 22 ton industrial waste container filled with flammable construction waste was placed directly under tenants living and sleeping areas was to save money on construction costs.
Workers simply dragged waste through living rooms and threw it out windows, rather than having to walk to a container away from the building.
Fire Simulation images provide a graphic frame by frame, detailed list of events that show why things would so quickly lead to another Greenwood style death by smoke and flames disaster.
Unusually strong inward drafts in the building are created by hot air rising and the elevator bays present within the 12 story apartment structure, especially in the middle of winter.
With open windows, broken windows, open doors, open air conditioning sleeves mounted in the side of each apartment, if the container were to catch fire in the middle of the night, smoke and toxic fumes would be drawn into tenants sleeping areas quickly.
Many would perish as living and sleeping areas would be instantly flooded with dense toxic smoke, the same events that led to the 16 deaths at Greenwood Health Center and 16 more deaths at the Hartford Hospital fire. Smoke detectors give a degree of warning, but many have died in past fires nonetheless.
“Smoke was everywhere. An entire bedroom burst into flames. The roar and the flames were like a blast furnace. The screams, the screams, there were people on fire, some still in their beds. There were people on fire. I will never forget the sounds they made.” –E.M.T. Official, Greenwood Health Center.
Smoke produced from burning cardboard and treated wood contain many toxic gases. It is not only smoke. PVC pipe, present in the debris emits heated hydrogen chloride gas when burned. And there is polyurethane in the container from old couches and furniture.
With an ignition source, polyurethane catches fire and acts as its own accelerant, turning to a liquid, then giving off hydrogen cyanide and cyanide gas in the process.
That the container can catch fire from a greasy rag in the middle of the night was brought to the attention of many in authority, and ignored.
Greasy rags and other simple wastes are famous for spontaneous combustion, becoming self-igniting waste. The industrial container shown here contains not hundreds, but thousands of pounds of flammable debris. Industrial waste measuring in the tons that resided day after day, week after week, directly next to and underneath tenants living rooms and bedrooms.
Greenwood Health Center had many fire retardant materials in use. The Center also had 12 nurses and aides on duty at the time of the fire, and they had numerous smoke detectors. Yet 10 died from smoke inhalation, 6 more died in the weeks to come. In the Hartford Hospital Fire of 1961, the cause of the fire was flammable waste in a garbage chute, which in turn resulted in a flash fire. Sixteen died in that blaze.
Thirty days prior to the blaze at Greenwood Center, the premises had undergone a thorough fire inspection by officials and found to be in compliance with fire codes.
As a matter of public record, the hazard of the container was reported to officials yet nothing was done. The property manager responsible for the placement of the container was also told by tenants to move the container a safe distance away from sleeping areas, yet the property manager reportedly refused.
The disaster at Greenwood was covered by the Hartford Courant city newspaper in one edition. The disasters at Greenwood and The Hartford Hospital and other fire disasters involving the elderly were covered by The USA TODAY nationwide newspaper in numerous editions
Concerned neighbors and tenants trying to protect their own home, and others very concerned for the safety and welfare of their parents have assembled with symbols and leaflets of protest in Connecticut. Pictured are some of the designs in protest of the near disaster that could have killed 240 persons at The Executive Square House Disaster.
A003
Bad Landlords of the U.S.A. and Bad Landlords from Hell. Part 1.
December of 2007
WEB BROADCAST SERVICES
CHANNEL 14 NEWS
Allegations of Abuse Caught on Film
New developments have taken place at Executive Square House reportedly involving the same property manager, Odis Coleman.
Executive Square House was a major topic in a prior news report titled "Fires Rage in Hartford Connecticut" where a near disaster took place involving the reckless endangerment of 240 elderly and disabled tenants.
Tenants of Executive Square House filed complaints with authorities in 2005 regarding the reported fire hazards. Tenants took photographs of the actual hazards as proof of the reckless endangerment allegations.
The same property manager, Odis Coleman, using a supposed " inspection clause" of the tenants lease, is the subject of a new rash of complaints involving tenants and their relatives. The complaints graphically outline random unannounced forced entries of tenant’s apartments, searching closets, cabinets, bedrooms and bathrooms. Reportedly the property manager then proceeds to take pictures of tenant’s bathrooms and bedrooms in disarray as though they are in violation of some code when of course, they are not. The complaints also outline other unusual behavior as well as taking pictures of tenants with next to no clothes on, ramming tenants bare feet and limbs with doors upon forced entry and making swift hand arm gestures to see if the tenant will flinch or swing at him.
Video footage taken by a victimized tenant who has asked the sound track be muted and had previously been victimized shows the alleged property manager in their home after a forced entry, going from room to room in their home taking photographs of their belongings, bedrooms and bathrooms.
Reportedly the property manager Odis Coleman, has openly chosen to engage in open intimidation and retaliation against tenants entrusted to his care, and specifically targets those who he believes has filed complaints against him.
Executive Square House is subsidized low income housing for the elderly and chronicle disabled located in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
FIRES RAGE IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT
THE CONTINUING SAGA OF BAD LANDLORDS
Hartford, Connecticut 2007
WEB BROADCAST SERVICES
CHANNEL 14 NEWS
Hartford Connecticut has had to respond to too many high-profile fires in its history.
Most notable is the 1944 circus fire that killed 168 and chronically disabled 373 more. Most were children.
Hartford Connecticut has also had to respond to too many high-profile fires involving the elderly.
The first is The Niles Street Convalescent Hospital Fire of December 24, 1945 which left 21 dead. The second is The Hartford Hospital Fire of December 8, 1961, which left 16 dead. This fire was the result of a flash fire in a trash chute.
The third is The Greenwood Health Center Fire, Hartford Connecticut, February 26, 2003, which left 16 dead.
Arson was supposedly to blame . This fire is the most famous, now known worldwide.
Among those killed was a 17 year old boy who had been in a coma; 23 more are now permanently disabled by high intensity burns and the inhalation of smoke and toxic fumes of burning plastics.
December 24 of 2006 marks the anniversary of Executive Square House, of Wethersfield Connecticut, a town adjacent to Hartford. Executive Square is where a near disaster took place involving an industrial sized waste container filed with flammable and highly flammable construction waste.
Fire Hazards Caught On Film.
Located behind Executive Square House, a 12 story apartment building that houses the elderly and disabled.
All flammable articles or highly flammable articles, the debris in the 30 ft long industrial container are located directly underneath tenants living and bedroom areas.
The property manager of Executive Square House responsible for the reckless endangerment of 240 elderly tenants, identified as Odis Coleman, is pictured.
Executive Square House is housing for the elderly and disabled, most are with income at the poverty level or below.
The reported reason the 22 ton industrial waste container filled with flammable construction waste was placed directly under tenants living and sleeping areas was to save money on construction costs.
Workers simply dragged waste through living rooms and threw it out windows, rather than having to walk to a container away from the building.
Fire Simulation images provide a graphic frame by frame, detailed list of events that show why things would so quickly lead to another Greenwood style death by smoke and flames disaster.
Unusually strong inward drafts in the building are created by hot air rising and the elevator bays present within the 12 story apartment structure, especially in the middle of winter.
With open windows, broken windows, open doors, open air conditioning sleeves mounted in the side of each apartment, if the container were to catch fire in the middle of the night, smoke and toxic fumes would be drawn into tenants sleeping areas quickly.
Many would perish as living and sleeping areas would be instantly flooded with dense toxic smoke, the same events that led to the 16 deaths at Greenwood Health Center and 16 more deaths at the Hartford Hospital fire. Smoke detectors give a degree of warning, but many have died in past fires nonetheless.
“Smoke was everywhere. An entire bedroom burst into flames. The roar and the flames were like a blast furnace. The screams, the screams, there were people on fire, some still in their beds. There were people on fire. I will never forget the sounds they made.” –E.M.T. Official, Greenwood Health Center.
Smoke produced from burning cardboard and treated wood contain many toxic gases. It is not only smoke. PVC pipe, present in the debris emits heated hydrogen chloride gas when burned. And there is polyurethane in the container from old couches and furniture.
With an ignition source, polyurethane catches fire and acts as its own accelerant, turning to a liquid, then giving off hydrogen cyanide and cyanide gas in the process.
That the container can catch fire from a greasy rag in the middle of the night was brought to the attention of many in authority, and ignored.
Greasy rags and other simple wastes are famous for spontaneous combustion, becoming self-igniting waste. The industrial container shown here contains not hundreds, but thousands of pounds of flammable debris. Industrial waste measuring in the tons that resided day after day, week after week, directly next to and underneath tenants living rooms and bedrooms.
Greenwood Health Center had many fire retardant materials in use. The Center also had 12 nurses and aides on duty at the time of the fire, and they had numerous smoke detectors. Yet 10 died from smoke inhalation, 6 more died in the weeks to come. In the Hartford Hospital Fire of 1961, the cause of the fire was flammable waste in a garbage chute, which in turn resulted in a flash fire. Sixteen died in that blaze.
Thirty days prior to the blaze at Greenwood Center, the premises had undergone a thorough fire inspection by officials and found to be in compliance with fire codes.
As a matter of public record, the hazard of the container was reported to officials yet nothing was done. The property manager responsible for the placement of the container was also told by tenants to move the container a safe distance away from sleeping areas, yet the property manager reportedly refused.
The disaster at Greenwood was covered by the Hartford Courant city newspaper in one edition. The disasters at Greenwood and The Hartford Hospital and other fire disasters involving the elderly were covered by The USA TODAY nationwide newspaper in numerous editions
Concerned neighbors and tenants trying to protect their own home, and others very concerned for the safety and welfare of their parents have assembled with symbols and leaflets of protest in Connecticut. Pictured are some of the designs in protest of the near disaster that could have killed 240 persons at The Executive Square House Disaster.