{"id":516393,"date":"2022-11-26T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/homeaway-com-declared-sag-harbor-rental-safe-before-fatal-fire-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T14:02:07","slug":"homeaway-com-declared-sag-harbor-rental-safe-before-fatal-fire-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/homeaway-com-declared-sag-harbor-rental-safe-before-fatal-fire-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Homeaway.com declared Sag Harbor rental safe before fatal fire: lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22eb1fa5b6f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22eb1fa5b6f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/homeaway-com-declared-sag-harbor-rental-safe-before-fatal-fire-lawsuit\/#%E2%80%9CHomeawaycom_declared_Sag_Harbor_rental_safe_before_fatal_fire_lawsuit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Homeaway.com declared Sag Harbor rental safe before fatal fire: lawsuit&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHomeawaycom_declared_Sag_Harbor_rental_safe_before_fatal_fire_lawsuit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Homeaway.com declared Sag Harbor rental safe before fatal fire: lawsuit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>A Sag Harbor summer rental where two college-age sisters were killed in a fire had \u201cworthless carcasses of non-functioning alarms\u201d \u2014 but a popular vacation rental website portrayed the property as safe, according to a lawsuit.  <\/p>\n<p>Jillian Wiener, 21, and her sister Lindsay, 19, of Potomac, Md., were vacationing with their parents and older brother at 3 Spring Lane, when a fire erupted on Aug. 3, killing the women and leaving their family shattered. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than fond memories of a week\u2019s vacation on Long Island\u2019s east end, the Wiener family is left with a nightmare from which they cannot wake,\u201d the family declared in their Brooklyn Federal Court filing against Homeaway.com and the property owners.<\/p>\n<p>The Wieners \u2014 dad Lew, mom Alisa, and son Zachary, 23, and the girls \u2014 had spent $8,000 to rent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/3-Spring-Ln-Sag-Harbor-NY-11963\/32721739_zpid\/\">the home<\/a> for a week. The three-bedroom, two-bath, $1.8 million house was owned by Pamela and Peter Miller.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?w=666\" alt=\"Lindsay Wiener, left, and her sister, Jillian.\" class=\"wp-image-24795918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1332 1332w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=998 999w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=666 666w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=333 333w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fire-victims-20-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\"\/><figcaption>Lindsay Wiener, left, and her sister, Jillian.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">jillywiener\/VSCO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-09.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"mangled garage door, police tape\" class=\"wp-image-24794231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The garage door of the Sag Harbor home where two young women were killed in a fire in August.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WUSA9<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/us.eversheds-sutherland.com\/People\/Lewis-S-Wiener\">patriarch Lewis Wiener<\/a>, a former federal prosecutor, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/southampton\/dad-2-girls-lost-fire-finds-strength-lives-defined-joy\">suffering serious health issues<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> was already bittersweet \u2014 but it became a hellscape when the family awoke at 3 a.m. to the rear of the home engulfed in flames.  <\/p>\n<p>Jillian, a senior at the University of Michigan, and Lindsay, a freshman at Tulane, never made it out, leaving their parents \u201cbroken\u201d and their brother \u201chaunted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family later learned the home\u2019s outdoor kitchen, which they had tried to use in the hours before the fire, had never been inspected; the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms weren\u2019t working, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.easthamptonstar.com\/police-courts\/202291\/after-fatal-fire-58-charges-homeowners\">the home had multiple violations from the town of Southampton<\/a>, according to court papers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"A Sag Harbor vacation home became a horrific nightmare for an Maryland family, when an August fire claimed the lives of two sisters.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    According to court documents, the home had multiple violations from the town of Southampton.                                <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">WUSA9<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"A Sag Harbor vacation home became a horrific nightmare for an Maryland family, when an August fire claimed the lives of two sisters.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    The family later learned the home&#8217;s outdoor kitchen had never been inspected.<br \/>\n                                <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">WUSA9<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"A Sag Harbor vacation home became a horrific nightmare for an Maryland family, when an August fire claimed the lives of two sisters.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hamptons-fatal-fire-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    The Wieners booked through a popular website.                               <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">WUSA9<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Wieners booked through a popular website that lets vacationers rent residential properties. HomeAway sent the family an email stating the owner of the Spring Lane house said there were smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, a fire extinguisher, and a first aid kit, among other safety features, the suit says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is as reckless a situation as you can find,\u201d said the family\u2019s attorney, Andres Alonso. \u201cThis didn\u2019t need to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en and it happened because everyone decided they were going to take shortcuts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for VRBO, which owns HomeAway, declined comment on the litigation. Pamela Miller did not respond to a message seeking comment.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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