One person is dead and others are injured after the roof of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.
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The building is at significant risk of structural failure and collapse, the FDNY reports, so much so that the department’s rescue teams were pulled back. Instead, rescue crews utilizedA massive emergency response following a garage collapse on Ann Street in the Financial District.FDNY Chief of Operations John Esposito said that six workers were in the garage at the time of the collapse.
Esposito said that the department believes all the workers are accounted for, but couldn’t confirm that. “That structure is very unstable,” he said. “We’ve had some of the slabs, a couple of the concrete slab floors collapsed, crushed some of the cars that are inside, and this will be a prolonged operation.”
New Yorkers are being warned to stay away from the three-story garage’s vicinity in the Financial District, which is a stone’s throw away from City Hall, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Pace University.FiDi local Chad Scott, who parks his car at the garage, said the building had long been in “disarray.”
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