UNR Add a fire monitoring system to deal with residents’ concerns about free home – Foxreno.com

Reno, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) – UNR employees have reported on News 4-Fox 11 that they will install a fire monitoring system in Evans Avenue’s free home to deal with resident resident concerns.

The update came a few hours after our interviews with both university officials and worried neighbors who feared that people who did not happen could break into the unoccupied building and accidentally start a structural fire.

It comes as UNR has purchased 15 houses along Avenue Evans, south of the Interstate 80 for homes of teachers, employees and graduates. The so -called university village is intended to launch a leasing of professors and students in March.

But in the meantime, the neighbors have ignited for warmed fire, potentially getting out of control and spreading to their homes.

“If you talk to the fire department, one of the main causes of fires is homeless people who invade the homes and then they are cold because the heat is off and they start fires and it is spreading and they will not call the police,” said lawyer Mark Mark Mausert, whose home and office is in the neighborhood.

“And when you have emptied the neighborhood of most residents, there is no one to call the fire department. And there is a huge difference between a spot fire that can easily be placed against a structure that is completely absorbed in flames.”

In interviews at the beginning of Tuesday, employees outlined the steps they took to mitigate the risk in the area, including additional police patrols, uploading windows and doors, clearing the vegetation and soon, adding lights activated by movement. The properties also have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers.

But Mausert called for them to go further by adding fire and burglary alarms – and even offered to help them pay them.

Troy Miller, Assistant Vice President of the Community and UNR’s real estate, said they were looking at all options, but did not say that a fire alarm system was planned.

“We look at all security measures,” he said. “We collect the information together for all those types of security problems to analyze how we can best deal with the problem and concern not only of this neighbor but of all neighbors.”

But in a statement sent to News 4-Fox 11 a few hours after these interviews, UNR spokesman Scott Wallquist said a “fire monitoring system” would be added to the home south of Masert.

“We have continued to explore the safety opportunities for all homes of the university village,” Walshshist writes.

A fire monitoring system is installed in the specific home that you have talked about. The university continues to review and investigate additional safety measures at University Village.

Officials said they hoped the first residents would move by March 1, if not earlier.