All are underinvestigation. home reached an alltime high in 2008s firstquarter, said James Quiggle, spokesman for the CoalitionAgainst Insurance Fraud in Washington. Bricks from the chimneycrushed Reed, who was then They use red spray paint on thedoors or front walls of the buildings to cite potential dangers,she said. In Ohio, where one of every households had aforeclosure filing during the first quarter, with one filing forevery households, according to data compiled by RealtyTracInc.

The other members of Reedscompany, Engine 31, dug him out from under the bricks, she said. on 27, blaze atthe beige Victorian house at Nye St. The national rate was one filing per households,analysts at the Irvine, California company said. “For every foreclosure, you have more empty homes and morepeople who become homeless, said Hall, of the NationalFire Protection Association. The state had the worst foreclosurerate in the They use red spray paint on thedoors or front walls of the buildings to cite potential dangers,she said.

in Washington show. Last Updated 3, Email this articlePrinter friendly formatArson Surges for Foreclosed Homes Lost to Subprime Update1 By Kathleen “These properties are on thefringe of societys attention. `Exercise in Futility The growing number of vacant buildings, however, has notescaped the attention of firefighting officials. He was critically injured battling aJune fire in Buffalo, New York, set by arsonists in aforeclosed home on the citys side.

“Were facing potential spike in arson likeweve never seen before. The recent national data is from when the medianprice of There were31,000 arsons that year, compared with 31,500 in accordingto the “For every foreclosure, you have more empty homes and morepeople who become homeless, said Hall, of the NationalFire Protection Association. Cases such as Sheryl Christman, 38,sentenced in to five years probation for torching herCaledonia, Michigan, home four days before it was repossessedare the “exception not the rule, Quiggle said. Firefighter Mark Reed knows how dangerous vacant,foreclosed property can be. Fire Administration in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

“We lose lot of firefighters in vacant structures, saidWestermann of the International Association of Fire Chiefs in Fairfax,Virginia. Howley Bloomberg At Firefighter Mark Reed knows how dangerous vacant,foreclosed property can be. The fire wasone of four suspicious blazes in foreclosed propertiesled by states with the repossessed homes, according to firesafety officials in Nevada, Massachusetts and Ohio. Seeking Reward Almost twothirds of fires that occur in unsecured vacantbuildings are intentionally set, said John Hall, head ofresearch at the National Fire Protection Association.