Five people remain unaccounted for, including two whose remains may be in a pile of rubble at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building, officials of Davenport, Iowa, said Tuesday.
Scott McFetridge and Hannah FingerhutThank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Emergency crews work the scene of a partial apartment building collapse on May 28, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.
A family member of one of the missing people also spoke, pleading with people to understand that authorities want to bring the remains of the six-story building down in a controlled way without dumping more material onto the rubble pile. “I plead with community to let the city do their job,” the woman said.The building is “unstable and continues to worsen as time progresses,” Fire Marshal James Morris said.
City officials said rescue crews escorted 12 people from the building shortly after a middle section collapsed at about 5 p.m. Sunday, and rescued several others, including one person who was taken to safety overnight Sunday. By Monday morning, Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said “no known individuals are trapped.”
“There was a lot of screams, a lot of cries, a lot of people saying ‘Help!’ when the building came down,” Tadd Mashovec, a resident of the building, told KCCI-TV. “But that did not last, and two or three minutes, and then the whole area was silent.” The fire marshal said Tuesday that the owner had also hired a structural engineer who determined that the building was safe enough to remain occupied during the repairs.
The collapse didn’t surprise Schlaan Murray, a former resident, who told The Associated Press that his one-year stay there was “a nightmare.”Murray, 46, moved into his apartment in February 2022 and almost immediately began having issues — the heat and air conditioner didn’t work, and there were plumbing problems in the bathroom. Multiple calls to the management company rarely got a response, and when a maintenance person did stop by, they never completely fixed the problems, he said.
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