WILTON – During a recent public hearing, selectmen gave property owners 30 days to clear debris remaining from a 2007 fire.

The board agreed that the property falls under dangerous building statutes and ordered that the 376 Depot St. land owned by Michael and Karen Flagg be cleaned up, Code Enforcement Officer Paul Montague said.

“Someone has been doing something there,” he said Monday, but not enough.

The town tried to serve the Flaggs’ notice that they have 30 days to clear the debris and fill in the cellar hole, but servers were unable to find the Flaggs to give them the notice, he said. As far as Montague knows, the Flaggs are living in Turner, he added.

The town has been left to resort to publishing a legal notice three times in a local newspaper. The Flaggs have 30 days from the date of the last notice running on Nov. 17 before he will take the matter back to the board, he said.

Selectmen may then vote to have the town undertake clearing the property, with the cost to the town recovered by a special tax amounting to a lien on the property, he said.

After an insurance company investigation, the property was released for cleanup last spring, Montague told the board previously. But, little cleanup had taken place over the summer although he had made several attempts to communicate with the owners.

Montague contacted the State Fire Marshal’s Office and was told the town could order the work done under the dangerous building statutes. That process requires the board to hold a public hearing to determine if a danger exists and then order debris removal.