About a week ago, a fire in a Council Bluffs apartment building resulted in damage to the elevator. It’s a building for tenants over the age of 55 and, in some cases, those tenants have disabilities and lower incomes.
Residents have been told it will take four to six weeks to repair the elevator and, KMTV learned, that’s not unusual for a historic building with an older elevator. A local elevator repair company (not the company maintaining this elevator) told Katrina Markel that parts for older elevators are often obsolete and, therefore, tough to find.
The property management company spoke to us over the phone and emailed a statement, which can be found below…