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A Chicago woman, Diane Carli, faces a $233,000 water bill for a vacant, no-plumbing home, after the city installed a water meter and falsely billed her for over 500,000 gallons of water. Despite her protests and the house being gutted and unused, the city has not backed down, threatening to garnish her pension. The case highlights ongoing issues with water billing errors in Chicago, prompting calls for relief and reform.
The driver of a tractor-trailer is in critical condition after veering off the road and crashing into a vacant home in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Emergency crews responded to the scene and transported the driver to the hospital with serious injuries. No one else was injured in the incident. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
A small plane crashed into a vacant home in Georgetown, Texas, injuring three people. The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident, while fire crews remain on the scene.
A house in Wright County, Minnesota exploded on May 4, 2023, and was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived. The home was unoccupied at the time of the explosion, and the cause of the fire is still unknown. Firefighters from three cities responded to the blaze and were still extinguishing hot spots as of Thursday morning.