At least three people were injured when a building partially collapsed in Aurora, Illinois. The incident occurred Wednesday at about 6:30 p.m. on East Galena Boulevard.
Aurora police said scaffolding and a section of the exterior wall of a brick building fell onto the roadway. A car was parked beneath the scaffolding, but no one was inside it when the structure collapsed. Firefighters evacuated the building as a precaution. Police said rescue crews also used a drone to assess the condition of the building’s upper floors.
Aurora Mayor John Laesch said in a video posted on Facebook that the building had already shown structural damage. He added that talks are underway with the property owner to review the structural and engineering plans. Several bricks fell from the same building last summer. Work has been underway at the site for more than a year. According to city officials, the scaffolding was put up only a few months ago. Plans call for a restaurant on the ground floor, while the residential units on the upper floors were vacant. The work had been approved by city authorities.
The three injured people suffered minor injuries, police said. At one point, firefighters began spraying the building with water to keep more pieces from falling onto the roadway, but more fragments then broke off the building. An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the collapse.
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Source: Polski.FM
