Foster home catches fire scheduled to open for holidays

PLANTATION (AP) -- A foster home that was close to being ready for use by six minority youths caught fire early Sunday morning.

Apparently some neighbors near where the foster home was located were not in favor of having it in their community. It was also reported to Friends of Children that neighbors organized community meetings to try and find ways to prevent the foster home from opening. The organization recieved weeks of threatening phone calls before the home mysteriously caught fire.

Plantation Fire Department is not ruling this fire a result of arson, but an undetermined cause, and no one was injured.

The 3 bedroom home was in its final stages of liscensing and scheduled to be opened by Friends of Children before the holidays.

Among things destroyed in the fire were many of the youth's personal belongings, including precious family posessions.

Friends of Children is now in the process of replacing the youths belongings and finding a new house to suffice for a foster home.

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