Crews were dispatched around 4:55 p.m. Sunday to the apartment building known as The Davenport, Carlsten said. Part of the building’s back section collapsed and detached from the rest of the structure, the fire chief said.
“I live in the building just next to it, and we heard just like a large crash,” Andrew Sommer, a former tenant of The Davenport, told CNN affiliate KWQC. “Shortly after, we went outside and saw the whole section of the building gone.”
Initially, seven people were rescued and more than a dozen others escorted out of the building. An eighth person was found overnight and taken to a hospital, Carlsten said Monday.
The cause of the collapse has yet to be determined. The building’s owners had current permits for repair work for the exterior wall, said Richard Oswald, the city’s neighborhood services director.
“This is a very specialized rescue, a very time-consuming operation, and we need to have some more expertise and more manpower to help us with that,” Carlsten said.
Numerous people watched as crews worked Sunday.
”I live in the building just next to it and we heard just like a large crash and then shortly after we went outside and saw the whole section of the building gone,” Andrew Sommer, a former tenant of the apartment building, said.
Mayor Mike Matson said Sunday night that he spoke with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who offered full assistance.
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