Multiple People Are Missing After Iowa Building Collapse
July 8, 2023
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Multiple People Are Missing After Iowa Building Collapse
Officials said they were trying to find the missing, but raised concerns about the safety of emergency workers because the building could collapse again.
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“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. You can’t run up to a pile of bricks and rocks —” “They’re probably together. Trying to [expletive] survive.” “— and just start throwing things off. As much as we want to. We want to get everybody out and we want to do it right now. So understand, it’s not that we don’t want to do this. It’s the fact that we have to do it in a safe manner.”
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