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[email protected] News Photo by Julie Riddle The tip of a house on West Lake Avenue shows damage from a fire that destroyed the home in December 2018. ALPENA A home left standing more than two years after a fire on Alpena’s north side is not a safety hazard, according to city officials. The two-story home on West Lake Street burned the day after Christmas, 2018, when the upper story caught fire in the early hours of the morning. All residents and pets escaped unharmed. The home, though badly damaged, is structurally sound, and the city has allowed the homeowner time to be in a position to have it demolished, according to Alpena Mayor Matt Waligora. ....
[email protected] Once-inside beams barely hold a portion of the former roof together, glimpsed through a broken window of a burned house on Washington Avenue in Alpena on Thursday. ALPENA An Alpena eyesore will soon be no more, if city officials have their way. A large house on Washington Avenue, destroyed by fire in May 2020, has for nearly nine months marred what many see as an attractive thoroughfare through the city. The long delay was because of a combination of an owner slow to clear his property and the city’s hands being tied to do anything about it, a city official said. ....