CNN, WPVIBy Jason Hanna and Rebekah Riess, CNNA Philadelphia firefighter died early Saturday in a building that collapsed soon after a fire there was extinguished, while four comrades and a city worker were pulled alive from the rubble, a fire official said. “Our department lost a member bravely fighting a fire and then caught in a building collapse after the fire was over,” he said. As firefighters focused on displaced residents and “overhaul” — looking for remaining fire in concealed spaces — the building collapsed, Murphy said. This was a “lean-to/pancake collapse,” Murphy said, in that while some collapsed material might have fallen flat on a surface, other material might have leaned against a wall, creating space. “There were a lot of void spaces,” Murphy said.

Source: CNN June 18, 2022 17:04 UTC