RACHEL RAVINA/BAYSIDE GAZETTE
A dilapidated home on Flower Street sits vacant and awaits demolition in the form of a controlled burn. Berlin’s Planning Director Dave Engelhart informed Berlin’s Mayor and Council of the progress during a meeting last Monday evening.

By Rachel Ravina, Staff Writer

(Aug. 22, 2019) A derelict home that’s become an eyesore on Flower Street is scheduled to be razed via a controlled burn by the Berlin Fire Company, Berlin Planning Director Dave Englehart told the mayor and Town Council meeting last Monday.

Engelhart said the burn is set for sometime in September, or by the last Monday in October. The determining factors will be the weather and a sufficient number of firefighters available to manage the burn, he said.

The town had a long-standing desire to level the vacant building on the corner of Showell and Flower Streets but had to wait until the heirs to the property worked out their differences.

Engelhart said last month the Berlin Fire Company had received a permit to conduct the burn, but that a family member objected to it because he had not been consulted.

That has since been resolved, Engelhart said last week, “and now the fire department is back on board. So they will be burning the house with a controlled burn.”