After a fire, bed bugs “rain down from ceilings” into other apartments
By nobugsonme on Mar 14, 2008 in 55 Bleecker, Joe Fiorito, Toronto Community Housing, bed bug action committee, bed bugs, bed bugs in toronto, bedbugs, canada, journalists, ontario, public housing, tenant organizing, toronto
If the Thai train infested with bed bugs does not have you thoroughly skeeved, Joe Fiorito has a new article today in the Toronto Star on 55 Bleecker, a Toronto Community Housing (public housing) building in Toronto, where tenants have meetings about bed bugs at 2 a.m. because they’re all up anyway.
2 a.m.!
That’s just the beginning.
“There was a fire in the building in November, on the fourth floor. One man was killed. Nobody knew him; we’re still suffering from the stress of that … the bugs were totally blown out of that unit.”
Blown out?
“People were coming to me in tears, in total frustration, from bugs on the fifth floor, and more on the third floor; they were falling from the ceiling.” Bedbugs fleeing fire.
As if the horror of a fire in the building and a neighbor losing his life were not enough. Imagine bed bugs raining down from your ceiling.
Fiorito’s assessment of the public housing situation in Toronto vis a vis bed bugs?
Funny, TCHC [Toronto Community Housing Corporation] staff told me last year there might be three or four of their buildings with bedbug problems. I now believe there might be three or four without bedbug problems.
Toronto now has a Bed Bug Action Committee, so change is hopefully on its way. As I said before, I have no doubt Fiorito’s excellent series of articles on bed bugs in Toronto has a lot to do with that. Rock on, Joe!
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victoria | Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
i have had bedbugs twice in the last 3 years.i got them from a thrift store. one from a picture frame i bought at value village and the other from a VCR i got from goodwill.