Crumbling steeple, collapsed wall and a near-miss mar Canadian church demolition.
Things did not go as planned at the former Methodist Episcopal Church.
The steeple of the church was supposed to have been removed, intact, before any more demolition took place at the 135-year-old brick church. That didn’t happen — it fell to pieces.
Even that procedure, though, was delayed as paperwork had to be retrieved from Belleville before the steeple could be removed.
It was far from intact when it eventually collapsed to the ground over lunch Wednesday after a failed attempt to hook a chain on it.
Moments later, Belleville demolition man Jim Sincalir tore into the back of the church with his high hoe and the back wall and roof then collapsed, even as an employee scrambled to get out of the remains of the tower.
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