This was a very difficult experience and I must stick
with the facts because it is under investigation.
The Pennbrooke Community Manager called us
Friday May 6th explaining that our apartment unit was fill
with gas and the stove was left on. Since I was an employee she knew my schedule for the month and knew that our family was in California.
Just to be clear we left Thursday morning around 4 a.m. for our flight. We never used the stove that morning. In fact we had not used the stove since Monday.
When we were called Friday morning and told that she and her staff were in our apartment unit for a gas leak I felt very concerned, but you must understand we just moved into Pennbrooke the week before, Monday she fired me, then Friday she calls with this gas leak! All of this happened in less than two weeks.
The Manager knew we were not home and out of town, but still asked ‘can you come to the apartment to look at things?’
From California I called Bloomington police and they dispatched a unit. Bloomington emergency response was concerned because protocol states that Fire Rescue should have been called.
Could our Apartment and Apartment Building have blown up?? Why didn't The Manager call 911??
Was this an attempt to harass our family??
These are real questions.
The Manager said that the whole unit was filled with gas. I called other apartment complexes that use gas stoves, some within the Highland Management Group, and they consistently told me if a unit was fill with gas that they would evacuate the building.
Bloomington Emergency dispatch and the police officer I spoke with told me that they should have been called.
On top of all this we come home from vacation and find an empty Caribou Coffee cup, on my 11 yr. olds desk… and a empty Arizona Tea bottle in the kids room.
These are the facts!!
