About a 12 months earlier than 10 dogs died in a flood final summer season at District Dogs, a D.C. day-care middle for canines, an worker warned that the power was unsafe, in keeping with a lawsuit filed Thursday by eight house owners who misplaced pets within the catastrophe.
The civil case, in D.C. Superior Court, says the final supervisor of the District Dogs at 680 Rhode Island Ave. NE urged proprietor Jacob Hensley to handle an ongoing drawback of rising water within the facility, which skilled bouts of flooding within the summertime. But the lawsuit says that Hensley, quite than create an evacuation plan or relocate the business, determined to place dogs into kennels stacked behind the power in case of a flood.