BEL-AIR : Workers Take Soil Samples as House Teeters on Perch
Workers drilled for soil samples Wednesday at a damaged Bel-Air house that residents evacuated after its hillside perch began sliding away.
City building officials ordered the badly cracked house vacated on Tuesday, but residents had moved out after the slide a day earlier. The house at 11381 Chalon Road displayed gaping cracks on outside walls and in the carport underneath. The rain-soaked ground nearby had dropped more than a foot. A worker at the site said the house could still be heard slowly breaking apart on Wednesday.
The 4,700-square-foot house sits atop a steep hillside overlooking Roscomare Road in the posh Bel-Air Estates neighborhood.
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