Coverage of Lorain smokestack demolition fail to address safety issue.
The demolition of a school and its associated buildings is always likely to be an emotional and contentious issue. And the ongoing demolition of the Lorain High School in Cleveland is no exception, with many former teachers and students upset that the building could not be re-used or at least partially salvaged.
But all of this pales when compared to the method used to bring down the last of the school’s major structures.
With local media and former alumni attention focused upon this project, was it really such a good idea to break out the bottom of the stack, allowing it to fall perilously close to the excavator and its operator?
