- October 26, 2013
- Laura Ly and Tom Watkins
Friday, around eight at night, the power to an apartment was shut off do to unpaid bills. As a result a twenty-five year old women turned on candles to provide light for her and her five children. The lit candles caught the home on fire. Tashika Turner, owner of the house that caught on fire, called for help through her window. Her neighbor came to rescue, however; the fire was too heavy to get in the apartment. The neighbor heard the hollering of the children in the home, but had no way to enter. It took 100 firefighters and ninety minutes to tame the fire in the six story apartment complex. But it was too late. Three young boys had passed. Elijah Artis, 5; Jeremiah Artis, 2; and Michael Turner, 4 months. They were declared dead upon arrival at Lincoln Medical Center. Tashika Turner survived the fire and was released. Her two daughters, ages 4 and 4 months, are still in the hospital in stable conditions. The city tries to avoid turning off the power by putting struggling owners on a payment plan. But Turner owed well over thousands of dollars, this forced them to take greater measure by shutting her lights down. The question is, whose fault was this fire? Tashika Turner's for not paying her bills or the city for turning off her lights?
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