Residents displaced by the fire at The Cooper apartments in Fort Worth’s Near Southside are seeking legal advice to get answers and looking into the possibility of filing a class-action lawsuit.
Tenants say they are upset about the lack of communication and assistance from management following the historic 6-alarm fire that damaged large sections of their apartment complex on West Rosedale Street and forced more than 800 people out of their homes. Some of them are looking for legal avenues to get compensation for the personal items they lost, the financial hardship of finding a new home and other damages suffered.
On June 30, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to request the U.S. Small Business Administration join state and local partners in conducting a preliminary damage assessment. He also said that residents can submit a self-reported damage survey on TDEM’s website…