The weight of ice accumulating on the building's roof may be a factor in the collapse.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On Wednesday an excavator was digging through debris at the back of a building that housed the Turnagain CrossFit gym. In the front, other equipment operators were removing snow from the roof.that killed Sadie Huffer, who was attending a fitness competition inside.
“Every day has been emotional, even just the guys coming in here and sweeping, it’s been a teary-eyed thing,” Dunn said. “Looking at someone’s business that was destroyed, but also a loss of life from someone who was doing a healthy habit.”Dunn, a general contractor who works for the building’s owner, is working with structural engineers and the city to try and figure out what happened.
Dunn said the snow load on the roof was not excessive but there was a thick buildup of ice on the section that collapsed. “At this time we know there was an exceptionally large accumulation of ice on the collapsed portion of the roof, the weight of which may have been more than double the design snow load,” Noffsinger wrote. “This ice was readily apparent in the debris.”
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