Yahoo! News - Landlord Uses 40 Cans of Roach Fumigate: "Fri Mar 11, 8:40 PM ET
STAMFORD, Conn. - Several tenants had to stay in a temporary shelter and a hotel because of a landlord's attempt to fumigate a ten-family home. The landlord apparently touched off 40 cans of cockroach fumigate at the same time Thursday morning.
'One can is plenty,' Dr. Johnnie Lee, the city's health director, who spent much of Thursday setting up a temporary shelter for tenants.
The incident forced about a dozen of the building's 50 tenants to spend the day across the street at the International School at Rogers Magnet School, health and fire officials said.
The tenants thought they would need to spend the night on cots in Rogers gymnasium, but the Stamford chapter of the American Red Cross put them up at a hotel, Lee said.
About a dozen tenants were in the house when the landlord released a cloud of roach poison near the front section of the large home at about 11 a.m. Thursday, Capt. Trevor Roach of the Stamford Fire & Rescue Department said. Officials said the excessive fumigation was a mistake.
One woman was hospitalized for minor respiratory problems, Lee said."
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