Flood victims furious after their cars were towed

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BRIDGEPORT, Pa. (CBS) — Car owners successful hard-hit Bridgeport are furious aft dozens of vehicles were towed distant aft past week’s tempest without notice. Now they’re told to wage up to get them back.

Neighbors with flooded homes accidental getting backmost their cars has go a large headache aft their lives were turned upside down past week.

On apical of having to regenerate the walls, carpets, and much wrong her Bridgeport house, Minelba Negron besides present has to interest astir coming up with astir $150 to get backmost her car that was towed distant aft past week’s storm.

“Our homes are gone, we person nothing,” she said. “We’re being charged fees retired the wazoo to get our spot backmost that should ne'er person been removed successful the archetypal place.”

A idiosyncratic from Jamison’s Towing successful King of Prussia tells Eyewitness News it removed much than 70 vehicles from Bridgeport aft the flood.

“They had nary support from immoderate of the radical who ain the vehicles to region the vehicles,” Negron said.

“I asked and directed that 73 cars beryllium towed and removed from streets,” Bridgeport Police Chief Todd Bereda said.

Bereda says to velocity up clean-up aft the storm, an exigency declaration was signed that allowed the cars to beryllium towed.

“So that we could get exigency vehicles, trash vehicles, remediation vehicles and the vehicles for each the radical who needed to travel backmost into the borough to get the enactment done,” Bereda said.

But for those with their homes ravaged by the tempest paying a interest to get backmost their vehicles is hard to swallow.

“I don’t adjacent person a spot to live,” Negron said. “If you privation to bash thing bully for the borough and for the community, waive the fees.”

“My bosom goes retired to them. Everyone that’s present is simply a household subordinate successful Bridgeport. They’re a neighbor. They’re not chartless radical to us, truthful I recognize that. And that’s the hard happening erstwhile trying to marque a decision, it’s got to beryllium bully for the many,” Bereda said.

After Eyewitness News reported connected the situation, Jamison’s Towing said the institution volition waive the interest to car owners if their security doesn’t screen it.

If you did person your car towed, the main says archetypal to telephone your security institution to spot if they volition wage to person your car released.

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If they won’t screen it and it’s pugnacious to pay, radical are encouraged to spot if Jamison volition enactment with them.