Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com » Toronto Community Housing http://bedbugger.com bed bug news, information, activism, and support Thu, 22 May 2008 15:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en After a fire, bed bugs “rain down from ceilings” into other apartments http://bedbugger.com/2008/03/14/after-a-fire-bed-bugs-rain-down-from-ceilings-into-other-apartments/ http://bedbugger.com/2008/03/14/after-a-fire-bed-bugs-rain-down-from-ceilings-into-other-apartments/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:00:28 +0000 nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2008/03/14/after-a-fire-bed-bugs-rain-down-from-ceilings-into-other-apartments/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "After a fire, bed bugs “rain down from ceilings” into other apartments", url: "http://bedbugger.com/2008/03/14/after-a-fire-bed-bugs-rain-down-from-ceilings-into-other-apartments/" });]]> 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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  • Clip of the Day:

    TheStar.com | Public Health must declare bedbug war

    “The problem is spreading like flames all over town. Where are the people who will deal with this problem as if they were firefighters in front of a burning building?”

    Bedbuggers, Are you all reading Joe Fiorito’s articles in the Star? You really must. He has been doing the most amazing series of articles on people suffering from bed bugs in Toronto. Article after article as documented in recent news posts here.
    I wrote him a fan letter.

  • If you’re a tenant of Pistilli Realty’s beleaguered Astral apartments, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you can join this new MySpace group and talk to your neighbors.
  • “A recent problem was an infestation of bedbugs, which Freeman said was remedied with donations of new beds and bedding.” This kind of lacadaisical reporting sends the wrong idea. New beds and bedding did not eliminate bed bugs from a homeless shelter.
  • “Now Tropicana will have to ‘get bedbugs headlines out of people’s minds,’ (William J. ) Yung (III) said.”
    There’s one way to get them out of our heads: make sure they’re not in any of the beds!
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  • This is a public housing official: “We have a program of unit refurbishment. We’re spending $75 million over three years to upgrade kitchens and bathrooms; we want to seal every crack so there isn’t free ability of the pests to move. And our new buildings have similar specs…” Seems pretty progressive to me.
  • “Many infestations can be traced to people coming to the United States from third-world countries or Eastern Europe.” (I’m not sure anyone has actually traced the paths of these infestations. Yes, bed bugs travel, but they do so in every direction. I don’t doubt that bed bugs do come with immigrants, but they also go out with travelers and business people. They know no boundaries of class, national origin, or nationality, and whenever people throw down the “immigrant” card, I get my hackles up.)
  • On recent bed bug pyrethroid resistance studies: “The Cincinnati and Lexington bugs were immune at levels 200 to 300 times the recommended dosage and also unaffected when directly sprayed with two commercial pyrethroid insecticides.” Lots more of interest here on the relative immunity to pyrethroids of bed bugs in various cities.
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