City inspectors have shut down a 10-unit Munjoy Hill apartment
building after discovering numerous safety violations at the site, including
exposed live wires, broken fire alarms and non-functioning sprinklers.
The inspectors were summoned to the building, which is undergoing
renovations, by the Portland Fire Department, according to local reports.
The building, at 193 Congress Street, is situated between Homegrown
Herb & Tea and Mama’s Crow Bar. It was also the scene of a raid by the
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency in 2012 in which one man was
arrested and charged with dealing crack cocaine, according to the
Portland Press Herald.
About a dozen people live in the building. It is unknown when they
will be permitted to return to their apartments.