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City board will consider demolition or cleanup order for Price Florist

Posted at 5:26 pm June 4, 2013
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Price Florist

A city board next week will consider issuing a demolition or cleanup order for Price Florist on Oak Ridge Turnpike.

A city board next week will consider issuing a demolition or cleanup order for Price Florist on Oak Ridge Turnpike.

The city staff has recommended that the structure, used for a longtime floral business, be declared unfit for human occupation or use and has requested a demolition or cleanup order within 60 days.

The city required an “emergency vacate” on May 1, according to an agenda for the Oak Ridge Board of Building and Housing Code Appeals. A notice dated May 1 and still posted on the building’s front door said the building is deemed unfit for human occupation or use. It is to remain conspicuously posted until the structure is repaired or demolished. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: cleanup, demolition, demolition order, dilapidated, disrepair, home, Houston Avenue, Oak Ridge Board of Building and Housing Code Appeals, Oak Ridge Turnpike, Patricia Warren, Price Florist, structural defects, unfit for human occupation or use

Report: Man flees from police, suspected drugs found in toilet

Posted at 9:16 pm January 7, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

A Knoxville man allegedly fled from Oak Ridge police Friday night once in a car and twice on foot and was found in a bathroom shower near suspected marijuana and crack cocaine that was in a toilet, authorities said.

Anthony S. Gulley, 25, fled from an attempted traffic stop just before midnight Friday and ran into a home on Houston Avenue, according to warrants filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.

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Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated burglary, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anthony S. Gulley, crack cocaine, felony evading, flees, Houston Avenue, marijuana, Oak Ridge Police Department

Houston Avenue resident burned when gasoline used on fire

Posted at 9:39 am October 11, 2012
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A Houston Avenue resident suffered facial burns and was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center on Wednesday with non-life threatening injuries after gasoline was used on a fire in Scarboro, authorities said.

The patient, who was not identified in an Oak Ridge Fire Department report, reportedly suffered second-degree burns from the fire at about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday.

Although he didn’t have more information on this particular incident, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said gasoline is generally dangerous to use on fires.

“Gasoline should never be used to start or enhance open burning,” Kerley said Thursday.

He cited a couple of examples to illustrate the dangers.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: facial burns, fire, Houston Avenue

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