DAYTON, Ohio -- Owners of a downtown Dayton apartment building will move residents out for a week and fumigate from top to bottom in a battle against bedbugs. Workers will tape and seal all the windows at the Biltmore Towers apartments next month, then flush the 18-story building with Vikane, an odorless and nonflammable gas.
Denver-based Aimco, which owns the building, will move all 180 residents and their pets in with friends or relatives or a local hotel if needed. A Chinese restaurant on the ground floor, the building's only business, will close during the fumigation. Aimco says evacuating the building is the only way to defeat the pests, which have resisted less intensive removal efforts the past two years.
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