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November 6, 2007

If it's not one thing ...

The city has yet to complete repairs from last month's sewage backup and now there's another problem with a city building.

As it turns out, Safety Hall is not so safe. The building is the headquarters for the Police Department's field operations and the city hired an engineering firm to check out the building's former City Council room in preparations for plans to move the city's dispatch center into that room.

But there's one big problem. Engineer Weiquan Tan visited Safety Hall last week and found cracks at the top of four wall panels.

"The cracks indicate the structural failure of the concrete panels, which could cause the collapse of the proposed dispatch room and possibly, adjoining structures," Tan wrote in a letter that was excerpted in a press release by Police spokesman Carl Baker.

"I suggest that the City of Redlands take measures to prevent bodily injury or death from a possible collapse in the structure," Tan's letter also said.

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