Who's responsible? LL or Tenant?

[Bob Romano]

Question? if a tenant gets water in the basement, who is responsible to clean it up? One of my employees had water in his basement and I went there to help in wet vac it all up to help him out. He got about 3 inches of rain water that came in thru the foundation during a downpour. I said to him " why isn't the landlord here cleaning this up" he said he called the LL and he said " oh wow, call me back when you get it all cleaned up " and hung up on him. The LL never showed up , took us 4 hrs to get all the water out. 

If this was one of my tenants, The tenant would off been on the horn asap calling me to clean it up.

Who is responsible for this type of clean up?

It was ground water, an act of god right? Their was no pipe burst or anything like that. My worker had no renters insurance and lost a lot of stuff stored in the basement.