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YAKIMA — An estimated 25 to 30 people were evacuated from a North Sixth Street apartment building Friday morning when children playing with matches or a lighter started a fire in a second-floor unit.
Yakima Fire Department Battalion Chief Abel Castilleja estimated damage at $70,000.
Occupants of the 13-unit building in the 300 block of North Sixth Street escaped without injury but were checked for smoke inhalation.
The American Red Cross is assisting residents displaced by the 9 a.m. blaze.
Castilleja said in a news release the apartment where the fire occurred sustained heavy smoke and fire damage. An adjacent apartment had smoke damage and a first-floor unit had water damage.
Two of the units are unlivable, the release said.
According to the release, two children living in the apartment where the fire started came out of the bedroom and told their mother the bed was on fire.
Efforts to extinguish the blaze failed and the fire department was called.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the front of the apartment and fire at the rear.
I know the mother of these kids firsthand and these kids are neglected all the time. I would love to know why CPS didn't get involved and why she still has the kids. I might not be the best mother around but i never once in all my children's years put them in danger like this and i sure never neglected them. Some people should never have had kids. Those babies deserve to have a mom and dad that love and provide for them the right way.
Report Violationwow, i am just wondering where these kid's parents were? they are lucky to be alive! this is a very scary situation. children have to be supervised at all times. and lighters should never be in reach.
Report Violationwshsndrms, if there is a neglect issue, as a citizen, it should be your duty to report this to cps if you are aware of neglect issues. then it would be investigated.
Report ViolationI believe she has been turned into CPS. From what i have seen CPS never goes after parents that are neglecting their kids they go after the ones that have fallen on hard times yet they are trying to do their best. CPS is a joke sometimes. I just hope that some day someone wises up and sees that those babies deserve a decent life. No child deserves to go through all those babies have.
Report ViolationI surely must agree with wish's assessment of CPS. I am personally aware of one case where the CPS case-worker did NOT do an on-site inspection of a home next door to me as he/she should have. The single dad died unexpectedly. When the police went in, the house was such a mess that before the landlord could re-occupy the house, it had to be completely gutted and rebuilt. A totally disgusting example of the main reason for such extensive work: The family was using their bedroom and bathroom walls as a latrine. Because the toilet was broken, (he didn't want to report it to the landlord for repair due to the other messes around) used plastic bags as well, which were then stored in the garage and laundry room, filing them both floor to ceiling with human waste!
When the police brought in the CPS supervisor to retrieve some items for the displaced 8 & 10 year old boys, she was, of course, appalled. She stated that one of her case-workers had filed and passed the house on a condition report for the premises just one week prior. She commented that the employee would likely be fired for doing a "drive-by" inspection, since it was obvious that the case-worker did not enter the premises.
that is so completely disgusting.
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