Dayton apartments to empty in bedbug battle

DAYTON (AP) — Owners of a downtown Dayton apartment building are moving 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, colorless 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. The Biltmore receives Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 subsidies.

A Chinese restaurant on the ground floor, the building’s only business, will close during the fumigation.