“Somebody is going to die,” is what a private contractor had reportedly warned, a month before the Davenport, Iowa apartment collapsed.
The chief building inspector in Davenport, Iowa, resigned this week amid backlash for potential failures that preceded anon Sunday. The ill-fated building passed a city inspection by Trishna Pradhan in March, despite a private contractor warning a month prior that the building wasn’t structurally sound and that “somebody is going to die” if work wasn’t done. “Site is secure,” Pradhan wrote on the inspection, thereported.
Mayor Mike Matson said in a Thursday press conference that Pradhan stepped down on Wednesday, and the city will ramp up inspections at other structures that recently passed inspection. Three people remain missing and are feared to be dead in the rubble, officials say, as others—like Quanishia Berry, who reportedly had—are still fighting for their lives. The missing trio was identified as Brandon Colvin, Ryan Hitchcock and Daniel Prien.
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