Published August 20, 2008 12:32 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Marion County Health Department sent dozens of workers to an apartment complex Tuesday that had not been cleaned up since it was severely damaged by a May 30 tornado.
12:32 a.m.: Marion County cleaning up apartments
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Marion County Health Department sent dozens of workers to an apartment complex Tuesday that had not been cleaned up since it was severely damaged by a May 30 tornado.
The tornado blew the roof off some buildings and sheared the brick off of others at the Falcon Point apartments on the city’s northeast side. Windows were broken and some doors were damaged or missing. The 15-acre complex remains littered with debris.
No injuries were reported, but hundreds of families were displaced by the damage.
The health department sent five crews with a total of 40 workers to the apartment complex Tuesday morning, agency spokesman John Althardt said.
The health department set a deadline of Monday for private cleanup crews to begin work.
“They never showed up,” Dana Reed Wise, chief of the Marion County Health Department’s Bureau of Environmental Health, said Monday.
Representatives of Dallas-based TacCo Falcon Point, the property owner listed with the Marion County assessor’s office, declined to comment. Last week, property manager Debi Sanders said that the complex would be auctioned off Oct. 1.
There was no listing for the company in the Dallas telephone directory and a phone number for the complex rang unanswered.
The cost of the cleanup would be added to the owner’s tax bill, Wise said.
An administrative judge is expected to rule next month on a separate Health Department order to demolish the complex.