Water damage to Trumbull County records will speed move, Fuda says

WARREN

Some of the Trumbull County records kept on three floors of the county-owned Wean Building on North Park Avenue got wet during a break in a 4-inch water pipe on the fourth floor.

The break Sunday night triggered a fire alarm, which brought Warren firefighters to the building. The problem wasn’t caused by freezing, said Commissioner Mauro Cantalamessa. “It is an old building, and this is what happens with old buildings,” he said.

Ironically, some of the same records that got wet Sunday also got soaked in July 2013, when water backed up into the basement of the county-owned Stone Building at the corner of North Park and High Street and into the basement of the Wean Building.

That water resulted from a hard rain that also filled up the basements of several other downtown buildings.

After the storm, the county purchased the former First Place Bank building on East Market Street to house county records and several county offices.

The county’s Planning Commission and Building Inspection Department moved into the new building in recent months, and the county’s Records Center staff has been moving records into it for close to a year. Sunday’s accident will speed up the process, Commissioner Frank Fuda said tonday.

Read about the extent of the damage in Tuesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.