Dealing with a health hazard...
 

I didn't know where else to put this. I'm not as upset as I was before, but I'm still not completely fine...

The next door neighbor is a drunk, plain and simple. She somehow left the gas on in her stove. I have no idea how long it had been like that (maybe 10 or 20 minutes). One of the other people in here decided to go outside the front door to toss the trash. She asked me to let her back in.

When I ran upstairs to let her in, I smelled gas all out in the hallway by our apartments. I kept saying, "It smells like gas out there!" One of the other ladies called 911 because the smell was staring to come in our apartment. They told us to get out and tell the other people in the building to get out as well.

Two minutes later, five fire trucks, a couple of cop cars, and two ambulances came up. Our entire neighborhood was like a disco dancefloor with all the lights. For about a minute, they knocked on the lady's door and she would respond, but wouldn't open the door. By the time they got her out, she kept saying she didn't smell anything.

Come to find out, her pilot light on her stove had gone out and if anybody lit cigarettes like they usually did in the hallway, we'd all be dead....

I guess what I'm asking is what's the best way to deal with this next door health hazard because she has a history of doing this crap. This is the second time this has happened since I've been here, but neighbors say she's been doing this long before we moved in.

What would you do? I'm still upset a little about this (it just happened about five minutes ago)...

Evict her ass, or make everyone smoke outside.

That's the thing, how can I get her evicted of nobody else is willing to step up as witnesses? People have said she's been doing this stuff way before we got there.

That was some scary crap...just to think, if any of them chain-smoking idiots came downstairs with a cigarette, we wouldn't be around no more....

i think you should move. if she usually does that and people usually lite up in the hallway, that means you are in danger while just minding your business. you might want to move even if its just to another building in the same area. thats worse than having to worry about being robbed. Now your concern is being blown up.

I think so, Devo. Those people have been tolerating it for quite sometime. It's awful! I can't stand the thought of this woman doing this again!