EVERYBODY OUT: Hundreds of apartment dwellers are looking for new homes tonight. Barrington Plaza was the scene of two raging fires within the last few years, one deadly. Why renters in nearly 600 units have just months to move. Tonight at 11 from ABC7
Barrington Plaza Apartments -- which has been the scene of two fires over the past decade, including one that killed a 19-year-old foreign exchange student -- will be closing to all renters and begin vacating occupied units so the high-rise complex can be renovated with fire sprinklers and other safety upgrades, the owners announced Monday.
According to firefighters, the 25-story apartment complex had gotten away with not having a sprinkler system since it was built in 1961 and sprinklers were not mandated until 1974. Shortly after the Barrington Plaza blaze, Eyewitness News filed a public records request with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeking to identify all the high-rises without sprinkler systems.
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