Fed-up condo owners along Atlanta’s Buford Spring Connector say they are running out of patience after a string of fires in the homeless camps tucked into the woods beside I-85 northbound.
Neighbors in the Cedar Chase condominium complex say there have been at least three fires in the past six months, close enough to backyards and nearby parks that families with young children worry about smoke, drifting ash, and what happens if one of those blazes gets out of hand.
Residents Demand Action
At a recent neighborhood gathering, residents traded stories of watching flames jump through the trees just beyond their fences. Parents said they keep one eye on the kids at the nearby park and the other on the tree line, nervous that the next flare-up could spread to homes or shut down the highway.
The city, for its part, says it has secured permission from property owners to clear some of the encampment areas and notes that individual landowners are responsible for maintaining their own property, according to WSB-TV…