Eight people were rescued after an apartment building partially collapsed in Davenport, Iowa.
A six-story apartment building partially collapsed Sunday evening in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport, injuring at least eight people, authorities said.
Carlsten and Davenport Mayor Mike Matsen said first responders who rushed in at their own peril saved lives.The collapse happened shortly before 5 p.m. local time Sunday, Carlsten said. The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear. In addition to those rescued, more than a dozen people were escorted out of the building as they were"self evacuating," Carlsten said. An air ambulance landed near by Sunday night,One tenant described a harrowing scene to the paper, saying she managed to get out as"everything just fell down and everything fell on top of me" but her wife and their cats were still inside.
The building's owner had secured permits for repairs on its exterior brick walls, officials said. The owners had two other permits issued for exterior brickwork over the last year, officials said. Falling bricks were reported over the last week from that repair work.
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