A family sued the city of Encinitas, the state of California and others after two women and one girl were killed in a bluff collapse in 2019.
Five years can feel like five months and five minutes all at once when you’re grieving. Pediatric dentist Dr. Pat Davis said the grief hasn’t let up.His sister-in-law, Elizabeth, his wife, Julie, and his daughter, Annie, were sitting against the bluffs when they collapsed — crushing them to death.Fell has been a partner on Davis’ case. She said the same bluffs collapsed before in the 80s and took out the stair access to the beach.
“That engineer's conclusion was, ‘We should not rebuild the stairs. The bluffs are going to continue to collapse, and if you rebuild the stairs and bring people down there, people are going to get hurt again,’” Fell said. “Those recommendations were not listened to.”“That was always our number one thing, to try and get some changes so that this wouldn't happen to anyone else,” Davis said.
Encinitas Mayor Tony Kranz issued a statement saying: “This is a tragic situation … Bluff failures are a natural and unavoidable occurrence, so the city continues to do its best to educate and warn beach patrons to stay as far away as possible from the bluffs.
As part of the settlement, the city agreed to post more signage warning the public about bluff failures. It’s also agreed to train its lifeguards to warn the public as well."Julie was the love of my life. Annie was the kind of girl that everybody loved,” he said. “It's just hard to be without them.”
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