For over 15 years, Caltrans failed to enforce safety at its property where a fire broke out last year, shutting down the 10 Freeway.
Infrequent and haphazard inspections by Caltrans allowed for the conditions that caused the massive fire that shut down the 10 Freeway downtown last year, costing $33 million, according to a new report from the agency's inspector general.
'Despite this warning and the new policy directive, there were no other inspection-related activities at the Lawrence Airspace until February 2020, which was approximately five years from its last inspection and more than three years from the date of the fire in Atlanta,' the report stated. The inspector that February noted the prohibited subletters and took pictures of 'countless stacks of wooden pallets,' but never sent any notice to the tenant of the violations.
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