Long Beach tenants displaced by quake damage to return home Thursday
May 20, 2009 | 7:20
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Apartment tenants displaced by Tuesday’s magnitude 4.0 aftershock are expected to return to their Long Beach apartment building Thursday.
The 12 tenants of 2283 Locust Ave. expect to spend one more night at California Recreation Center Park, about two miles from their homes. The families were required to vacate their apartments, which suffered superficial damage from an aftershock two days after a 4.7 magnitude quake rattled Los Angeles County.
“From what I heard, plaster was starting to come off their walls, and that needed to be taken care of before the people returned,” said Guillermo Sanchez, a spokesman for the American Red Cross.
Sanchez said the landlord was unable to complete the repairs today as originally planned.
-- Corina Knoll
