By: Rich Rodriguez
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 8:11 PM PDT
See the KMPH post HERE
The street lights have been off for weeks in a Southwest Fresno neighborhood. Residents have complained to the city but so far its pitch black ever night after the sun goes down.The neighborhood near Clinton and Brawley has been without street lights for more than two months. Long time resident Charges Fuller says vandals are responsible for the street lights going out. "The wires have been cut to the posts. I think they took the copper out of them."
Fuller has lived in the neighborhood for six years. After the vandals hit he called the city. "When I called it in they needed the post numbers. So I called the post numbers in and they told me it would take up to four months to make the repairs."
Gurdevp Shergill got the same reply when he called city hall. He's lived in the neighborhood for seven years and he wants the city repair crews to move faster. "We're just so concerned about the kids, about our families, people breaking into our house, kids getting run over by the cars or the cars crashing into each other. It's a big concern that we have no light in the neighborhood. The whole neighborhood."
Shergill says things have changed since the lights went out back in June. He says just last week one of his neighbors was broken into after dark.
Shergill has complained to his city councilman Oliver Baines. The councilman says he's working on the problem but so far it's still dark at night in Shergill's neighborhood.
