Lucas sent a comment to OTBKB this morning. Here it is:
My name is Lucas (no relation to the Luke mentioned above, other than
we are neighbors) and I live in the top apartment of the building.
Regardless of how it was started and what will happen to the Pizza
Plus, I would just like people to be aware that our landlord and his
insurance company are seriously telling us to stay in a shelter and
have given us no information at all about what to do or when and if we
can move back in or access our things.
The insurance guy, “Harold,” who
would not give me his company name over the phone, is even telling us
that for two weeks we are not to touch anything and when asked about
when cleanup efforts might begin, “It’ll happen when it happens.”
Fortunately, it seems we all have places to stay and great support from
our friends or family for the time being but the landlord and his
insurance are not fulfilling their obligation in any way to take care
of the displaced tenants. I
If they have not, I would recommend that Luke
and the other tenants in his apartment contact the Red Cross as they have
been extremely responsive and helpful in terms of emergency resources
and advice.
Folks displaced from the fire were members of the band Sam Champion. More info over at Brooklyn Vegan: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/05/sam_champion_me.html