New Orleans mayor vows 'relentless' investigation in deadly Hard Rock Hotel collapse.
Crews were feverishly working on Sunday to stabilize the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans a day after the building partially collapsed, killing two construction workers, leaving a third trapped in the rubble and injuring 30 others, officials said.New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell said at a news conference near the disaster site on Sunday that search-and-rescue crews were poised to reenter the building.
Dramatic video shows the moment a crane collapsed at the under-construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans that killed at least one person and injured several others. https://t.co/6rbKpQkV2G pic.twitter.com/2PWJBvpgKY Cantrell said the investigation into the collapse will get underway once everyone believed to have been inside the building at the time of the collapse is accounted for.
"Our team is pretty much part of the incident command. We're working nonstop. There's no fusing, no arguing, no pointing fingers right now," Trascher said.According to preliminary information, all permits had been obtained to complete the building and that everything was"up to code," Cantrell said.
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