Two former tenants of the Silverado apartments in downtown SLC are suing their former landlords over a deadly explosion and fire at their building that killed two people.
G.T. Esplin, photographed in September, was a tenant in the Silverado Apartments, which ignited after an explosion on May 30, 2022. He is one of the former tenants now suing the landlords of the building.Two former tenants of the Silverado apartments in downtown Salt Lake City are suing their former landlords, alleging they prioritized collecting rent payments over residents’ safety before aIn the complaint filed last month, G.T.
From there, the tenant helped Richards out of the building, “remembering Richards’ skin peeling off his body” as the tenant opened the front doors, the complaint states. The complaint states that multiple times, dating back to at least 2020, residents had raised concerns about the man who smoked near his oxygen tanks.
“There is no question” that the defendants knew about the tenant’s conduct but “failed to remedy the foreseeably hazardous condition, choosing instead to continue collecting rent” from the man whose smoking triggered the blaze, the complaint states.He and everyone who survived from the Silverado’s 13 units were displaced after the fire, according to an investigative report on the blaze. In the days that followed, tenants also said the units inside the boarded-up building were looted.
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