CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
City Councilman Ed Reyes introduced a motion Friday calling on Los Angeles city departments to come up with ways to routinely evaluate structural problems of old apartment buildings.
The action follows the partial collapse Sunday of an apartment building in Reyes’ district.
The building had passed a Housing Department inspection within the last year.
The department said its inspectors are not trained to assess the structural integrity of the buildings they examine.
-- Jessica Garrison
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