Hillcrest Apartment residents are forced to boil pots of water for bathing two weeks apartment fire.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Residents of Hillcrest Apartments in Tarrant County have been without hot water for nearly two weeks following a December 10 fire that engulfed one unit.<\/p>\n
Following the fire, management sent an email to residents. It said, “the City of Fort Worth has required us to temporarily shut off the gas service to the property. As a result, hot water will be unavailable for the next few days.”<\/p>\n
A resident said those few days have turned into nearly two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Christopher Davis has tested his water every day since the outage began. The result is always the same: cold, or at best, room-temperature water.<\/p>\n
“It’s annoying. It’s truly frustrating,” Davis said.<\/p>\n
Davis said residents have received many follow-up messages from management. But none of them give a timeline on when the repairs will be completed.<\/p>\n
“They just copy paste and repeat, like ‘oh, there’s nothing that we can do. I’m sorry for the inconvenience,'” he said.<\/p>\n
The lack of hot water has forced Davis into a time-consuming daily routine. He heats small amounts of water on his stove \u2014 a process that can take an hour \u2014 to get enough for a sponge bath.<\/p>\n
“I just want to take a shower,” Davis said. He added that washing dishes and deep cleaning have become impossible.<\/p>\n
Donald Williams, another Hillcrest resident, said tensions are rising as residents struggle to get clear answers about the situation.<\/p>\n
“You got babies here, you got children here, this is a school spot where the school bus pick up the kids,” Williams said. “Just imagine if they had to go to school this week.”<\/p>\n
Williams described management’s communication as dishonest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Davis echoed the frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s a lot of questions that truly are just unanswered,” he said.<\/p>\n
Office employees at Hillcrest Apartments declined to answer questions and directed inquiries to their corporate office. Requests for information about a timeline for repairs and potential compensation for residents were not returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillcrest Apartment residents are forced to boil pots of water for bathing two weeks apartment fire. FORT WORTH,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-465830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115766962930242669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}