Officials in Iowa are making plans to demolish a six-storey apartment building a day after it partially collapsed, injuring at least one person and displacing countless residents and business owners. No fatalities have been reported.
May 30, 2023
“The property is currently being secured by a contractor onsite this afternoon and demolition is expected to commence in the morning,” the statement said.News of the collapse didn’t surprise Schlaan Murray, a former resident, who told The Associated Press that his one-year stay there was “a nightmare.”
“They would come in and put some caulk on it,” he said. “But it needed more than that. They didn’t fix stuff, they just patched it up.”“It was horrible,” Murray said, adding he felt the conditions were so bad that he didn’t want to bring his children to his apartment. “When something like this happens here, and tragedy strikes, our responders immediately do their work and their job and I can’t thank them enough,” Mayor Mike Matson said.
The building collapsed just before 5 p.m. Sunday. Carlsten said the back of the complex had separated from the mixed-use building, which houses both apartments and businesses. Authorities also found a gas leak in the building after the collapse.Rich Oswald, City of Davenport director of development and neighborhood services, said at a news conference on Sunday that work was being done on the building’s exterior at the time of the collapse.
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