Report Filed Week Before House Fire Claiming Evicted Tenant Cut Wires

April 5, 2018

The owner of a house that burned Monday in Bratt had evicted the residents  and filed a police report a week ago stating that electric wires in the house had been damaged.

Flames were shooting several feet into the air from the home in the 5500 block of West Highway 4 near Still Road when firefighters arrived on scene shortly after 3 p.m. The attic of the home was fully involved.

According to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office incident report obtained by NorthEcambia.com, deputies responded to the home on Monday, March 26. The landlord told deputies that she had evicted a tenant on Friday, March 23.  She told deputies that the previous tenant left the house wide open, in complete disarray with property left behind, and that power cords had been cut to two air conditioning units, a stove and and refrigerator.

“There was no way to tell if the tenants damaged the cords or of someone walking into the open house and damaged them,” the ECSO report states.

The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office.

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One Response to “Report Filed Week Before House Fire Claiming Evicted Tenant Cut Wires”

  1. David Huie Green on April 5th, 2018 8:32 am

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