Full Coverage: Deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley

The Alameda County district attorney’s office will not charge anyone with a crime in last year’s balcony collapse in Berkeley that killed six people and injured seven more, officials announced Tuesday.

The fifth-floor Berkeley apartment balcony that collapsed two weeks ago, killing six and injuring seven, passed muster with inspectors hired by the complex’s owners less than a year ago, according to documents released by the city Monday.

It has been a week since a balcony collapse at an apartment complex here shattered the lives of 13 families and sent Ireland into mourning.

City officials proposed new inspection and construction rules Tuesday aimed at preventing another balcony collapse like the one that left six dead and seven injured last week.

Newly released city inspection files show a handful of housing code violations at the Library Gardens apartment complex in recent years, but no indication of rotting wood that apparently caused Tuesday’s balcony collapse that killed six and injured seven.

Managers of a Berkeley apartment complex under scrutiny after six people were killed when a fifth-floor balcony collapsed are beginning inspections of their own.

The design of the apartment balcony that collapsed here earlier this week, killing six people and injuring seven others, contains no obvious defects, an independent engineer who looked at the balcony’s architectural plans said Thursday.

Burial and funeral preparations are underway for six students who were killed when a balcony collapsed during a birthday party in Berkeley.

Signs of apparent dry rot have been found on a second balcony of the same building where one collapsed here earlier this week, killing six people.

The wood rot that many experts believe contributed to the deadly balcony collapse here has been a problem in low-rise apartment and condominium complexes for years.

A day after six students were killed when a balcony collapsed at an apartment complex in Berkeley, the Irish government and the country’s consulate in San Francisco say they have set up an incident center and are meeting with relatives of the victims.

The Biswas family was trying to sleep, but the group partying on the balcony a floor above them was too loud.

For hundreds of college students in Ireland, flocking to California for the summer has become a rite of passage.

Water seeping into the horizontal beams supporting a balcony could have caused dry rot, contributing to a balcony collapse that killed six people in Berkeley, engineers who visited the scene said Tuesday.

Less than 24 hours after the collapse of an apartment balcony killed six people in Berkeley, authorities are turning their attention to helping victims and their families and to determining what caused the accident shortly after midnight Tuesday.

For hundreds of college students in Ireland, flocking to California for the summer has become a rite of passage.

A few weeks ago, Father Frank Herron stood in the assembly hall of Loreto College and presided over a Mass for the graduating class at the private all-girls Catholic school.

A sixth person died Tuesday after a balcony collapsed during a 21st birthday celebration at an apartment complex near UC Berkeley.