re: LIVE: Tree fell on Old Hammond onto 2 cars, people trapped.

I'd get a lawyer if I were one of the victims. That graveyard and those trees have been neglected forever. Who is responsible for the graveyards? Cemetery Board?

Much like the West Nile issues by the South 22nd St graveyard two years ago, this a case of neglect, whether owned by any living entity or just a case of one that falls under the state's domain?

My mother looked into buying the little rent house on that corner twenty years ago, but didn't due to it having already having been hit by a large fallen branch before, and being so low below the graveyard over the fence(moisture issues). Those huge old graveyard trees have been on the fade for ages, and if owned by an active owner would've been pruned or taken down ages ago..which left "neglect" to appear "sheer happenstance"..

Par the course for La's 47th to 50th rated reactive and underfunded and undermanned and inept municipalities and boards.