The roofs of two homes in dale are less then six inches apart and so the homeowner of one house fears that if the condemned building next to it burns down it will take the other with it.

Debbie Morgart of dale is doing everything she can now to get rid of a vacant property after a condemned building in Kernville nearly burned down a home right next to it last Friday.

Morgart said, “I've spent most of the morning calling the Department of Health and I got one number and another number then another number.

Morgart says she's not going to give up. Channel 6 did some checking and in cities like Johnstown, there are certain steps that must be followed first. In the case of the blighted property on Dibert Street, the city manager says it would have been torn down before the fire but the city was waiting on one of three owners to give them the ok to take over.

Davis said, “The thing is we have to get people to sign over a property before we put it on a demo list that's not always easy.”

As for Debbie Morgart's house she is taking her concerns to borough council to get this torn down.

City officials are doing everything they can to tear down blighted properties. The city manager says 28 condemned buildings were on the demolition list, 16 of them are now gone and 12 remain.