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With high temperatures expected this weekend and several recent fires across Utah, fire risk is front and center for many homeowners.West Jordan homeowner Randy Edginton said the property next door hasn't been properly maintained and that he tried multiple times to get the city to address the issue.According to Edginton, the lot has sat empty since a house burned down about five years ago. Since then, dry grass, weeds and trees have continued to grow, raising concerns about the risk of fire.Edginton said the city cleared the property once, but the overgrowth quickly returned.“West Jordan came back a year later and cleaned everything out and made it nice, and then the year after that, the weeds obviously were back, and I called and I went online and put in the request to have them come mitigate the weeds. Nothing happened,” Edginton said.He said he contacted the city again in May as the weeds continued to spread.
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With high temperatures expected this weekend and several recent fires across Utah, fire risk is front and center for many homeowners.West Jordan homeowner Randy Edginton said the property next door hasn't been properly maintained and that he tried multiple times to get the city to address the issue.According to Edginton, the lot has sat empty since a house burned down about five years ago. Since then, dry grass, weeds and trees have continued to grow, raising concerns about the risk of fire.Edginton said the city cleared the property once, but the overgrowth quickly returned.“West Jordan came back a year later and cleaned everything out and made it nice, and then the year after that, the weeds obviously were back, and I called and I went online and put in the request to have them come mitigate the weeds. Nothing happened,” Edginton said.He said he contacted the city again in May as the weeds continued to spread.
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