Since that Christmas Day in , Badger has feared she handed authorities the excuse they needed to surreptitiously knock down her house the day after the fire, destroying any evidence of what else might have caused it.
The electrical meter on the outside of her house was throwing off big white sparks and an incredible sound, Badger told them. More sparks popped along the power lines on Shippan Avenue. But authorities focused on what she said about the ashes that she and her then-boyfriend had swept from the hearth on Christmas Eve and placed in the mudroom. In the days after the fire, she learned city officials — after a cursory investigation — tore down her house while it was still smoldering, quickly carting the debris to a landfill.
They did it without her permission, as the law requires, then set the blame on the ashes and refused to field her questions. To get answers, Badger filed a civil suit against the city. So did her former husband, Matthew Badger. The incident was revealed during testimony from former Fire Marshal Barry Callahan. What happened to the smoke-alarm system? Why was the electrical meter exploding as she ran across the roof?
Her settlement earlier this year required that the city pass two ordinances — one saying the state fire marshal must be notified whenever a house fire results in a death, and another mandating that the state marshal and homeowner be notified when a structure involved in a fatal fire is demolished. The city also agreed to install reflective markers on all fire hydrants in Stamford. Leonard said there is already interest in the property, which hit the market Friday.
This is. So it is buildable but whatever goes there will be a non-conforming building. In a campaign with the hashtag WomenNotObjects, the Manhattan advertising executive is looking to fight the objectification of women in the marketing and advertising world. It's the harm we're doing, and for me, that's really what made me make this decision.
A very frank YouTube video for the campaign that she initially posted anonymously two weeks ago has already received hundreds of thousands of views for its powerful message. Badger has also pledged that her firm, Badger and Winters Group, will not use women as props or overly re-touch photos of women in their advertising. But trying really hard to not feel sorry for myself makes me feel good. After the fire, Badger had suicidal thoughts, and was committed to a Connecticut psychiatric hospital.
She also spent time in a facility in Nashville, before moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, and spending nearly a year living with good friend Kate Askew and her husband. On the first anniversary of the fire, Badger volunteered at an orphanage in Thailand during Christmas, bringing along a bag of toys that had belonged to her children.
But if these little girls were living their lives with joy and happiness, I realized — and if they could give their love to me after all they had been through — how could I possibly feel sorry for myself?
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