BALTIMORE — A vacant home collapsed Friday morning in Baltimore City, trapping two contractors.
It happened just before 11am, in the unit block of S. Fulton Avenue.
Fire crews rescued both, but not before at least one suffered serious injuries.
In District 9, where these row homes sit is the highest number of vacants with more than 4,700 of them in the area.
Hattie McKnight Holmes says she feels like the south side of the city is often forgotten, but she’s hoping there’s a resolution to the issue of vacant buildings before more people get hurt.
"I like the neighborhood I’m safe in my house it’s just when I come outside you don’t know who’s going to jump out of a vacant house when you walk down the street," she said.
Concerns over vacant homes in Baltimore City's reemerged, following the January deaths of three firefighters.
Paul Butrim, Kelsey Sadler and Kenneth Lacayo died while battling a blaze at a vacant home on S. Stricker Street.
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Problems with vacants haven't stopped since.
Nearly a dozen people were left without a place to live after a two-alarm fire at a vacant home on North Carey Street.
About a week before that, all it took was some wind to knock down a vacant home in North Baltimore's Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood.
Then two weeks earlier, a video went viral of a squatter jumping from 3-story vacant home on North Gilmore Street.
As of January 28, there were 15,032 vacant houses in Baltimore City — 13,560 of which are privately owned.
