Playing with fire: Foreclosures bring rise in uninsured tenants

Playing with fire: Foreclosures bring rise in uninsured tenants

It was force of habit that pushed Jeanne Ryan out of her home on a Sunday afternoon in January, just like everybody else at Indian Village Condominiums.

The fire alarm went off.

But she didn’t bother to take her purse, much less her television and furniture.

“We just all proceeded outside thinking it was a false alarm. Well, surely it was not,” Ryan recalled. “You think, ‘Oh, it’s going to be a small fire, and it’s going to go out.’