Portions of an under - construction Hard Rock Hotel in New OrleanscollapsedSaturday , killing at least one someone and immobilise several contractors inside according to local story .
A hotel construction land site on Canal Street in New Orleans collapsed this morning time . Scary stuffpic.twitter.com/33RFnkVgWB
— Matt Jones ( @KySportsRadio)October 12 , 2019
Screenshot: Matt Jones (Twitter)
In footage of the collapse shared on Twitter , you’re able to see vehicle cut and hoi polloi fleeing from falling rubble as it rains down one of the city ’s principal thoroughfare , Canal Street . One video recording take from inside a streetcar most directly beneath the hotel shows how speedily dust and rubble blanket the area like a thick-skulled fog . The view attend like something straight out of a catastrophe picture .
lurid video shared via@BrienFallon :
As the under - construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapsed , vehicle and a streetcar dodged detritus falling down from the twist site as capture from inside a streetcar .
LATEST info from the picture : https://t.co/54kEXtzdMMpic.twitter.com/90Vd6lqoIJ
— NOLA.com ( @NOLAnews)October 12 , 2019
The city ’s local CBS affiliate , WWL - TV , also captured drone television of the wake , and the hotel much looks deflated save for a single crane that remains remain firm among the rubble .
DRONE VIDEO captures the scathe from the Hard Rock Hotel crash on New Orleans ' Canal Street Saturday morning . Courtesy of Brandon Knox Photography LLC.#Beon4pic.twitter.com / AMO52D5xZ5
— WWL - TV ( @WWLTV)October 12 , 2019
It ’s still undecipherable what get the construction ’s upper floor to collapse , but authority say the website remains so fluid there is a “ very strong possibility of further collapse , ” New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Tim McConnell state reporters perCNN . “ Our big care right now is the Harold Hart Crane . It weigh several tons . ”
deliverance crews are currently search for two missing declarer believed to be inside . “ We take they are alert , ” McConnell said .
At least 18 hoi polloi were wound in the incident and taken to nearby hospitals , though extra reports are still fare in , CNN report . A third contractor originally believed to be miss has since been turn up among the injured . So far , no pedestrians or motorist draw by the hotel when it partially collapse have reported wound , McConnell order .
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