Three left dead after pair of demolition collapses.
Three people were killed on US demolition sites in a single day his week during a pair of unforeseen collapse incidents.
In Cleveland, Ohio, two demolition workers died after an auxiliary building on Brookpark Road in Cleveland collapsed on them as they were tearing it down.
Rescue workers were still using large cranes to yank metal beams and chunks of concrete out of the rubble several hours after the accident, which occurred around 4:30 p.m.
The names of the two contractors, who were just starting on their first day on the demolition job, were being withheld until their families could be notified. The body of a 49-year-old man was recovered around 9:30 p.m.
Crews were still trying to dig out the body of the other victim, a 60-year-old man.
Meanwhile, in Tallassee, Alabama, an abandoned buliding at the corner of First Avenue and Oak Street collapsed killing one person and injuring another.
Tallassee Police Chief Jimmy Rodgers has identified the female victim as 62-year-old Elinor Dallas. She and one other unidentified male were in the house preparing it for demolition when a beam collapsed, causing the roof to cave in. The male worker, Rodgers said, survived the collapse with minor injuries.
The workers were privately contracted to demolish two properties across Oak Street from one another, both buildings owned by Bonnie Caldwell. One building had been lost in a house fire, while the house that collapsed Jan. 25 was set to be demolished due to old
