

“We are doing the best we can to balance the building conditions and the safety of our responders,” Fire Chief Mike Carlsten said.

Adding to the challenge is a giant pile of brick and steel at the base of the building that is helping to hold up the structure but also may contain the remains of people killed in the collapse. Officials fear the unstable building will eventually collapse on its own. The state’s search and rescue team, search dogs and cameras were used in the search Thursday. He said the search for survivors was completed Thursday evening after electrical equipment connected to the building was controlled.

The state task force was mobilized and on site to first search for survivors and then secure the structure, Halleran said. – A timeline of concerns raised about Iowa apartment building, months before it partially collapsedĬity officials earlier this week said that Branden Colvin, 42 Ryan Hitchcock, 51 and Daniel Prien, 60, were unaccounted for and had “high probability of being home at the time of the collapse.” All three have since been listed in the National Database of Missing Persons.Hell yeah,' says Davenport mayor after partial collapse of Iowa building
