Despite rules written after a collapse killed 6, a
company took down half a block without permits. It says it was a
"court-ordered job."
Little more than a year after a botched demolition
triggered a Center City building collapse that killed six, a demolition company
took down nearly half a block of buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount section
without obtaining the required permits, an Inquirer investigation has found.
While dismantling five buildings last spring, Ashaw
Demolition of Oxford Circle also brought down a house that had been in a family
for four generations without informing the owner, the owner contends in court
documents.
And Ashaw used at least some of the unsafe and
discredited techniques that caused the collapse at 22d and Market Streets, city
inspectors said.
The demolition violated tough new rules the city adopted
so the tragedy of the collapse would never be repeated, inspectors said.
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Source: Philly.com
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