Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Thursday she will sue a Tucson mobile home park for failing to inform residents that the electrical system in the park was “extremely dangerous, unreliable, and overloaded.”
The lawsuit is an escalation in how public officials have engaged with utility issues in manufactured home communities in Arizona, and stands as a stark warning to park owners amid an ongoing wave of extreme heat.
“Mobile home units in triple digit heat and no A/C become an oven. It’s dangerous and it’s only a matter of time before someone dies,” said Attorney General Mayes in a news release announcing the lawsuit. “This is a warning to all property managers: if you endanger residents with repeated electrical outages or A/C outages, my office will come after you.”…