Four burned-out buildings on the main road in Nesquehoning will soon be coming down, borough officials say.

During the borough council meeting on Wednesday, resident Abbie Guardiani urged council to file an emergency demolition to take down the buildings, which were damaged by a fast-moving fire on Christmas.

She pointed out the borough has a blight plan in place, which is necessary to apply for funds from Carbon County’s blight grants for demolition of these kinds of structures.

“I’m here to say that you have been more than kind and generous to these people,” she said. “It’s been seven months. It’s right on the main street. It affects what you look at. It affects what people coming into town look at.”

She pointed out that a satellite dish is hanging from one of the buildings that could cause serious injury if it falls.

Guardiani thanked council for putting up the barriers to try and stop foot traffic directly in front of those four buildings, but noted that enough is enough and they have to go.

Councilwoman Lisa Shubeck agreed with Guardiani’s frustrations, but noted that the two end structures have a fire escrow and are ready for demolition, while the third, largest building is also ready to come down now that insurance has been settled.

The problem, council pointed out, is the fourth building in the middle of the block, which was not insured and the homeowner had been stating he wanted to rehab the building even after an emergency demolition was issued. That building is structurally attached to the building where the fire began and will fall when demolition happens, officials noted.

The homeowner has told council that he will take down the portion of the building that is structurally unsound but does not want to demolish the whole thing.

Solicitor Robert Yurchak said that the borough now is waiting on a structural assessment from ARRO Engineering and will then begin on the demolition of the third structure.

Deb DelFranco, the borough secretary/treasurer, said that with speaking with the homeowners of the other three structures, they are all ready to demolish the homes and plan to do so as soon as possible, hopefully within the next two weeks.

In other blight matters, Shubeck said that the blight committee plans to meet with ARRO and the police chief to see where they can move forward to improve the town.

Nesquehoning Mayor Tom Kattner also issued a warning to residents to cut your grass and maintain your property because the borough is trying to do more code enforcement regarding quality of life issues.

“There is no excuse for high grass,” he said, noting that officers will cite people if the grass is not maintained.