[StBernard] Suspicious fire hits Chalmette complex

[Westley Annis]

	makes one wonder what kind of people fema is putting in thier trailer park on madison, 
	since the trailer park opened the crime in the vista has increased. 
	
	
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	Suspicious fire hits Chalmette complex 
	
	Building unoccupied since Katrina flooding 
	
	Tuesday, September 12, 2006 
	
	>From staff reports 
	
	
	
	A suspicious two-alarm fire Monday heavily damaged a Chalmette apartment 
	
	building unoccupied since it was flooded by Hurricane Katrina, the St. 
	
	Bernard Parish Fire Department said. 
	
	
	
	Firefighters sent to 8720 Livingstone Ave. at 5:23 p.m. found heavy fire 
	
	coming from a bedroom of a second-floor apartment in the Vista Village 
	
	apartments, Deputy Chief Leon Lea said. 
	
	
	
	The fire progressed to the attic, into another second-floor apartment, and 
	
	through the roof. It was under control at 6:14 p.m. 
	
	
	
	
	
	The building, at the corner of Madison Avenue, is one of three two-story 
	
	brick structures in the 24-unit complex, formerly known as the Colomb 
	
	Apartments, a neighborhood landmark since the 1950s. 
	
	
	
	There were no utilities to the buildings. 
	
	
	
	The fire did not affect the closed C.F. Rowley Elementary School across the 
	
	street or a nearby FEMA trailer park. 
	
	
	
	With the heat and low manpower, firefighters did a good job confining the 
	
	fire to the second floor and keeping it from spreading to other buildings, 
	
	Lea said.