Busted pipe causes flooding at Sulphur Retirement Complex
Sulphur retirement complex suffers busted pipe, management nowhere to be found By Theresa Schmidt | February 18, 2021 at 2:02 AM CST - Updated February 18 at 2:18 AM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -Some residents in a Sulphur retirement complex say they are in dire straits after a busted water pipe flooded parts of their building. The situation has the building under what city officials call “fire watch.”
It all started about eleven Tuesday night when residents say a water pipe busted causing flooding into some apartments. The facility at 503 Cypress Street is called Sulphur Retirement Community.
Resident Cleveland Nixon can’t live in his third-floor apartment, after water leaked from the ceiling flooding his apartment and leaving brown, sludge and water in the hallway.