‘Please help us’: Seniors displaced after pipe burst at Lee’s Summit apartment complex

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Wednesday will mark a week since some seniors at an apartment complex in Lee’s Summit had a permanent place to live.

A pipe burst and flooded several floors at Wilshire Hills I near 83rd St. and Northeast Manhattan Drive.

According to an incident report from the Lee’s Summit Fire Department, eighteen rooms were deemed uninhabitable due to safety hazards.