Fox news item:
At least six people are dead and 14 others are injured after a four-story building being demolished in downtown Philadelphia suddenly collapsed, Mayor Michael Nutter said late Wednesday.
Early reports had been that one woman had died in the Wednesday morning accident, but rescuers using buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble kept working through the evening.
Body bags were removed from the collapse site at night, and authorities then turned off the floodlights that had lit it. Nutter said the city's emergency workers had been "diligent, determined, focused" in their rescue efforts.
"If anyone else is in that building, they will find them," he said.
A 14th survivor was pulled from the rubble early Thursday. Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne said 61-year-old Myra Plekam was pulled from the debris more than 12 hours after a building collapsed and that she was awake and talking to rescuers.
At least 13 other people were hospitalized at nearby trauma centers with minor injuries and listed in stable condition.
At least six people are dead and 14 others are injured after a four-story building being demolished in downtown Philadelphia suddenly collapsed, Mayor Michael Nutter said late Wednesday.
Early reports had been that one woman had died in the Wednesday morning accident, but rescuers using buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble kept working through the evening.
Body bags were removed from the collapse site at night, and authorities then turned off the floodlights that had lit it. Nutter said the city's emergency workers had been "diligent, determined, focused" in their rescue efforts.
"If anyone else is in that building, they will find them," he said.
A 14th survivor was pulled from the rubble early Thursday. Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne said 61-year-old Myra Plekam was pulled from the debris more than 12 hours after a building collapsed and that she was awake and talking to rescuers.
At least 13 other people were hospitalized at nearby trauma centers with minor injuries and listed in stable condition.
