Emotions ran high at a special meeting in Moreno Valley as city leaders explained why it red-tagged and closed a local mall due to “unresolved, life-threatening” fire code violations.
Workers pleaded with the city to allow the Moreano Valley Mall to reopen before Fire Chief Jesse Park addressed the crowd. He said that the mall owner has repeatedly failed to make necessary repairs to fire safety equipment violations, despite many in-person inspections and notices to do so, dating back to April 2024.
“The mall staff also freely admitted, this is very important, that the exit doors were broken, the alarm panel didn’t work, and the generators did not work,” Park said…