Camp Pendleton Marine’s Carbon Monoxide Death Was Preventable
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
By Beth Ford Roth
New information has come to light in the death of a 18-year-old Marine who authorities say was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning.
The death of a Camp Pendleton Marine from carbon monoxide poisoning was completely preventable, according to someone who lived in the same apartment complex where Pvt. McQuen Forbush died on November 10.
Molly Collins told television station KTVB-TV that during the six months she lived in Sagecrest Apartments in Meridian, Idaho, her carbon monoxide detector went off at least four times.
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I live at the apartment complex where this occurred. The management was horrible. Absolutely horrible.
ReplyDeleteI say "was" simply because a new management group has taken over, and the new group has been working well to fix problems that the prior management team ignored. Tara Gaertner, the apartment manager in charge of the place, was .... to put it simply...a manager who spent more time having a power trip than doing any actual work.
There would be hand written signs on the pool banning people from using it, they would hide notices about intentions to enter your property at the edges of doors only the night (not day) before they intended to enter...meaning they would be tromping around your home when you did not know or were at work, etc. They would create random fines and tack them onto your bill. They would lose deposits and they would skip out on being available during their "normal hours".
It was not all bad....some of the people there were great. One of the maintenance staff was actually very nice and friendly and very much against much of the horrible practices of the property group....she got fired.
The prior management group, H&H properties, was not any better. The old lady "Shirley" would treat you like you were some sort of deranges drug dealer trying to skip out on your rent. If you so much as left stray hair on your patio then you got a notice about being disorderly. I remember one complaint someone had about how they left a trashbag sitting on their back porch for a short period of time, like an hour or less I believe, while they were doing some spring cleaning...and they got a nasty notice because of it.
All in all, they were both horrible. I am hoping the new managers are better. Time will tell.