PHILADELPHIA -
You saw this video only on FOX: Piles of bricks scattered across lawns in one Philadelphia neighborhood after an entire wall of an abandoned house collapsed.
After some rain on Saturday, an entire third-story brick wall of the abandoned house collapsed near where Olga Peagan was standing outside on the 2500 block of North Fourth Street.
After years of fighting the city over this dangerous situation, she called us.
FOX 29's Chris O'Connell was back out there live Monday night, getting results less than 24 hours after the initial report.
Crews were at Peagan's front door first thing Monday morning to clean up.
Peagan has been begging the city to force the owner to repair the crumbling house next door for seven years.
Now Peagan wants her neighbor to fix up this dump before another wall collapses.
So, who owns the house? Up until last month, it was the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
PHA owned the home for years and had been cited several times by the Department of Licenses and Inspections.
But PHA no longer owns the house. In April, it was auctioned off along with three other homes in the neighborhood to NCS Real Estate on Cottman Avenue. Now, that company is on the hook for making repairs.
"That was very devastating what happened that day, to be honest with you. I hope that never happens again," said the new homeowner, Gregory Tucker.
Not only did the PHA come out and clean up the collapse early Monday morning. A clean up crew hired by the new owner came by. And, for the first time in years, there was a glimmer of hope that someone is actually cleaning up the rotting house next door.
Peagan is just hoping a permanent fix is on the way before another collapse.
"I am so happy because you all helped me to try to get somebody to do something, or else it would be more years the way it kept falling," she said.
