The mayor of Davenport, Iowa, says five people remain unaccounted for including two people who could still be in the wreckage of a partly collapsed apartment building
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The building is “unstable and continues to worsen as time progresses,” Fire Marshal James Morris said. “It’s the opinion of the structural engineer that any additional search operations in the area of that pile of debris should be avoided due to potential collapse. We are currently evaluating the risk assessment of where we can go back into that building to do this other search.”
By Monday morning, Fire Chief Michael Carlsten told reporters: “No known individuals are trapped in that facility." Authorities said they would soon shift from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. When firefighters initially arrived Sunday, they immediately took action, saving lives at great risk to their personal safety, city officials said.
Work was being done on the building’s exterior at the time of the collapse, said Rich Oswald, the city’s director of development and neighborhood services. Reports of falling bricks were part of that work, and the building’s owner had a permit for the project, Oswald said.
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