Posted on 12/11/2023 5:01:30 PM PST by Libloather
Part of a six-story building crumbled to the ground in the Bronx on Monday afternoon, resulting in a scene of destruction with a pile of rubble below.
The apartment complex in the Morris Heights neighborhood partially collapsed around 3.30pm.
Photos of the scene showed the bare walls of several units completely exposed.
A ground-level shed at the foot of the building was surrounded by a heap of sheet metal, bricks, concrete and metal rods.
Rescue crews equipped with police dogs responded at the scene of the collapsed building, searching for residents who may still be trapped inside.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams praised the quick response of the emergency services who were on scene within 96 seconds.
Video showed a corner of the six-story building with its walls sheared off and floors sagging, and a heap of rubble spilling out into the street.
A search dog plied the pile of debris which included twisted and jumbled metal, apparently from scaffolding that had stood around part of the building.
A portrait hanging on the wall was visible in one of the apartments; in another, what appeared to be a bed stood feet away from the unprotected edge of the floor.
Elsewhere, an armchair rested on a floor that tilted precariously down, like the top of a staved-in box.
Firefighters could be seen shining bright lights into apartment windows from high ladders.
At least one drone could also be seen hovering feet away from where the wall had fallen into the street.
Firefighters carted away rubble in buckets and used circular saws to cut through the collapsed scaffolding. But then firefighters pulled back from the rubble, at least for a time.
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Lord have mercy on all affected!
Wooden decks on the corner units?
Atlas is shrugging.
Smells like rent control in action.
The Big Apple is rotting.
Shattered, shattered.
Rent control.
Good God, bless all those effected.
Rats (four and two legged) are destroying NYC.
I wonder how it was no one was in any of those corner rooms?
Just before Christmas, what a loss!
They’ve got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown
What a mess, this town’s in tatters, they’ve been shattered....
Prayers up.
Has the idiot mayor blamed global warming yet?
And this is supposed to be...?
Its already publicised way too much to be used for Uke war propaganda, but it may still be.
Last spring a similar collapse of a 6 story apartment building in Davenport IA killed 3 people, but was promptly used for propaganda by being labeled a drone strike in Moscow. The link (if it works) is a ground level pic, but not the one I saw, which was a pic taken by a camera drone.
I recognised the building when a friend sent the phony pic labeled “Putin’s War On Ukraine Day 460” and “drone attack hits Moscow”. I saw the Davenport Public Library behind it. I had driven by it many times through the years, most recently about 18 years ago while on asphalt resurfacing jobs on streets in downtown Davenport.
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I like what they have done with the place. It opens everything up to a lot more light.
Its a scene from the movie Idiocracy
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