the residents are smoking hot. gary nurenberg reports this story actually starts back on october 19th when firefighters deliberately burned down an old house on south h street. >> reporter: they did it for a network morning show as a safety demonstration. >> we did it to try to promote safety in the home as far as fires are concerned. we were doing this to try and limit the amount of residential deaths resulting from fires in the residents. >> reporter: neighbors complained they had little notice and no input and worried what was going up in smoke and into the air. >> i'm sure this house has asbestos in it. it's asbestos cited. so whatever was in the error in that house is now gone and in the air over our houses. >> reporter: the fire department says it does not think toxins were an issue. >> we were not able to take a reading because the fact that everything was going up straight into the air, we didn't have anything at ground level that we could read.