Some families are angered over a new landscaping project at a Los Angeles cemetery that they said they were not told about.
"It's a slap in the face," visitor Laz Diaz said.
Diaz went to visit his father's gravesite at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in LA's Pico-Union district and said the burial ground looked like a "war zone."
Holes in the ground and construction tape sectioned off the grave sites and the headstones had been temporarily removed — all due to a landscaping project.
The cemetery told NBC4 that it sent out a letter about the landscaping improvements, but some families said they were never notified.
"I don't even know where my dad's place is because there was no marker there. The markers were all removed," Diaz said.
The landscape construction project is expected to be completed in anywhere from 45 to 60 days.
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Todd Davenport, the president of Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, said that the headstones will be placed back in their exact location once the project is finished.
"I would like to apologize to all families involved for the insufficient notice to inform them of the construction project and the dates involved," Davenport wrote in a statement to NBC4.
"I dropped the ball ... I apologize for any inconvenience or miscommunication."
Families are "more than welcome" to visit their loved ones "from a distance" while construction is underway, Davenport added.
