SALT LAKE CITY — As the smell of burning plastic filled their apartment, Josef Hardacker and Kelsi Johnson hoped whatever was causing the foul smell would be a simple fix. Unfortunately, that would not be the case.
“It’s a truly devastating feeling; we worked hard for quite a few years, essentially helped build this place into a home, and as of now, it’s something we can never come back to,” Hardacker said.
On Monday, as smoke began to fill their third-floor apartment, the couple discovered thick gray smoke coming from the roof of their building at The Village at Raintree near 850 N. 900 W. Minutes later, Salt Lake City firefighters would be tearing through their ceiling to find a fire burning the length of the building’s attic…