http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse.html?hp&_r=0

 

NEW DELHI — An eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories collapsed on Wednesday morning, killing at least 70 people, injuring hundreds of others, and leaving an unknown number of people trapped in the rubble, according to Bangladeshi officials and media outlets.... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-co...

 

So much happening under our feet.  Daily collapses of roadways due to the severe bow stretch, severe rains, crunching and land subduction all predicted in Zetatalk and all happening now.  Last week in Utah a fatal road collapse killed a 14 year old girl and injured 2.  It's painful to watch the planet crumble but we all knew it was coming.

Buildings collapsing.........a daily happening too.  With responses about what's causing all these happenings ranging from, rain, human error, poorly constructed, yada yada.....BUT, that's not going to fly with people much longer.  As soon as Planet X peers out at us from the sky, people will remember all the things that have happened up to this point and finally somehow, they will connect the dots.  Some will be in extreme denial, others will be so afraid and look for someone to take care of them, and still others will stand up and be counted and prepare as best we could.  There's no wishing this away, there's only pushing forward to a better tomorrow.  While our infrastructure crumbles around us we need to learn to be more careful, tread softly, kiss your kids, love with all your heart.  We are IN IT NOW.

I live in a house built in 1850 and it isn't falling down.  Age does not mean collapse. 

100-year-old building partially collapses in Malone

By: Rachael Paradis

A building in Malone that has been standing for more than a century will no longer be a sight in the town. The building on Route 11, well known to many in the community, collapsed overnight. While no one was injured, our Rachael Paradis tells us why the town is in a rush to tear it down.


MALONE, N.Y. -- Neighbors in Malone stood in surprise, took pictures and even shared stories of a once popular tavern that started to crumble early Monday morning.

County Legislator Billy Jones said, "It's an old structure, it was a structure that was obviously unsafe."

The tavern/hotel was built in the early 1900'. It has been closed to the public for about 15 years and was condemned six months ago.

Franklin County Emergency Services Director Rick Provost, "We're unsure what occurred last night at 3 a.m. What we do know is this building has been on our list of buildings with issues."

Jones said, "Old things fall down."

Police closed off part off Route 11 to traffic and to people, out of concern the rest of the building could fall down. Some in the community voiced concern over why this building, along with others like it in the area that haven't already been demolished. Officials say it comes down to money.

Provost said, "The high cost of abatement for these buildings really makes it tough for the county or the village to take those burdens on."

Jones, "We just have to come up with a plan to start taking some of these building down so we don't run into this problem going forward."

The demolition is only expected to take hours, but cleaning up the area is a different issue. Officials say it could be weeks before the site is completely cleared.

http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/551123/100-year-old-bu...

 

 LAKE ELSINORE: Water leak causes street collapse

 

10:00 PM PDT on Friday, July 22, 2011

By GENE GHIOTTO
The Press-Enterprise

Temporary repairs to a section of Joy Street in Lake Elsinore are in place today after a 1-inch water line gave way, causing 80 feet of the roadway to collapse and the asphalt to buckle.

The leak, caused by a 6 to 8-inch diameter tree root, was reported late Thursday in a line that leads to several duplexes on Joy between Machado Street and Riverside Drive, and behind Machado Elementary School.

Water service was restored to the 34 customers early Friday morning, said Greg Morrison, spokesman for the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District.

Water district and contractor crews spent much of Friday removing the damaged asphalt on the southbound side of Joy and laying down a temporary patch. The road was opened in both directions by late afternoon.

"That way the road will be open completely for the entire weekend," Morrison said.

Crews will return Monday and trench from curb to curb to permanently repair the 1-inch line.

On Tuesday, a paving company will remove the patch, put down new base and repave one side of Joy, Morrison said. Work on the other side will take place on Wednesday.

"That way on Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be able to keep on

 

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_spipe23.38e27e6...

Windhorst, Parsons Roadway Collapse: Cautious Testing Continues

County workers are testing for sinkholes but the work is proceeding methodically because of utility lines at the intersection, according to a Hillsborough County spokesman.

Several lanes at the intersection of Windhorst Road and Parsons Avenue in Brandon remained closed for the indefinite future as county workers tread carefully in determining what caused a section of the roadway to collapse July 19.

“We have to be really careful at that intersection because there are lots of utility lines in the area,” said Hillsborough County spokesman Patrick Murray. "We have a sewer line and a water line there and we have to make sure there are no other utilities, so we have to be careful drilling.”

At the scene, late afternoon July 22, barricades were seen at the intersection, with drilling under way.

Crew workers first believed a 16-inch sewage pipeline beneath the intersection might have caused the collapse of the 6-foot-square section of roadway on July 19, according to a county report.

But the sewer line was dug up and found to be intact.  Now the county is testing the intersection for sinkholes — but carefully, as Murray noted.  

Additional detours and lane closures are possible as crews dig up the line for inspection and any necessary repairs.

Motorists who must travel through the intersection are warned to expect delays.

http://brandon.patch.com/articles/windhorst-parsons-roadway-collaps...

Sewer collapse closes part of Lexington Road

At least one eastbound lane of Road near Etley Avenue and Cave Hill Cemetery will be closed during Thursday morning’s rush hour after a 48-inch brick sewer collapsed Wednesday evening.

Crews noticed a depression in the road before discovering the sewer had collapsed, and the area will be excavated Thursday morning, said Metropolitan Sewer District Executive   Bud Schardein.

He said it was too early to tell what caused the collapse, but age was a likely factor. That part of the sewer was built in the 1880s and could have been weakened from an unusually wet spring.

“With all the wet weather we’ve had this past spring, that has a tendency to undermine the mortar,” Schardein said.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110720/NEWS01/307200099/Se...

Road collapse might have killed Colorado family

(2011-07-20)

(wpr) - Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths might have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes.

It had been raining for hours Monday night when local authorities warned the Constantinides family, among others, about potential flood conditions near North Brush Creek Campground around midnight.

Not long afterward, the family's van drove into a washed-out portion of Wyoming highway 130 and was swept about 75 yards down Brush Creek. Laurel Constantindies and her three daughters died.

The husband and father, Alex Constantindies, who had grown up in Laramie, survived and escape the vehicle. He and a passerby later rescued Carbon County Emergency management Coordinator John Ziegler, whose car washed out while he was trying to assist in flood protection efforts.

Ziegler said he was "very fortunate" to have survived.

Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to the roadway early Tuesday morning. He says preliminary assessments indicate the creek swollen with rain and snowmelt may have undermined the roadway over some hours and then gouged a 25-foot-wide, 9-foot-deep hole in a matter of minutes.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news.newsmain/article/1/0/183...

Yunnan road test the opening day collapse resulting in four deaths and injuries

8, Yunnan” in the history of the most short-lived highway “a serious collapse destroyed sections of the site. After investigation, the highway there in time duration and other issues. Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Hai and Ning She

Recently, Yunnan Province, Internet users post, said the new Xinping county secondary road test three estuary opening day collapse occurs, resulting in 2 dead 2 injured. Internet users have questioned this “the most short-lived highway” Why just fix it collapsed, was “too much rain” or “bad way”?

After the incident, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were dispatched to investigate a group of experts, the group that really belongs to all “natural disasters caused by heavy rainfall.”

collapse of the vehicle crash on

recently, Internet users “pass,” said Post, June 27, Xinping County of Yuxi City, three city secondary road test the opening of the estuary collapse occurred the next day, resulting in a vehicle passing through here turn under the cliff, killing two people died inside the car and two others injured, highway interrupted. For the cause of the accident, the local government is a single point of heavy rain caused by a natural disaster.

7 8, correspondent along the new road to the scene three, the road there are construction workers on the highway guardrail, drainage and other construction, from time to time some sections of earth and rock rolled down from the hills.

close to the scene of the accident, the construction set up roadblocks on the road side. In the new three road K25 +450 to K26 +480 road, the reporter saw a total of three road damage, including two collapsed, a surface crack. Road accident at the hillside, two-way four-lane have collapsed, a lot of rocks, soil and concrete was rushed into the street of the valley.

“red water collapsed roadbed”

Zhang Xinping County Department of Transportation Secretary BU has introduced three new roads through villages and towns in Xinping County 8 19 village committees, with a total mileage of 90 kilometers . Road along the fragile geology, disasters, floods and geological disasters have been more serious.

accidents mainly due to heavy rains led to a single point of soft roadbed, road ditches and culverts to be above the blockage, and finally the formation of water as a waterfall of impact, resulting in collapse of highway roadbed.

Bu there are rules that highway design, construction and supervision units are selected strictly in accordance with the bidding system, procedural compliance and found no serious design flaws, quality of construction or supervision of omissions.

collapse occurred Sections of the construction unit project manager Jiangzu Long introduction, the unit will subcontract work to the successful construction services company, the project head of engineering equipment and materials, and is responsible for management and technical guidance, service company only the labor force, which is not labor sub-subcontract, the state permitted by law.

he said, in strict accordance with design drawings for construction, engineering, quality is no problem, Lu Jisong soft infiltration and erosion is mainly caused by the floods.

no quality problems, experts say

afterwards, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were sent experts to the scene. The Group believes that: section of the incident transverse slope steep terrain, poor geological conditions, heavy rainfall increased the hydrostatic pressure, the formation of collapse, is a heavy rainfall-induced natural disasters.

Yunnan Provincial Communications Department who participated in the survey, experts say, from the survey of the situation, roadbed, retaining wall strength and so meet the requirements and found no quality problems.

subsidy investigation in time duration for the fight

accused of the most short-lived road not approved the first building, not the acceptance that the opening test

Reporter learned that the investigation, three new road opened in October 2009 to build, and design in May 2010 before the Provincial Communications Department has been approved, there is “not approved prior to construction” and “time duration” issue. Not hand over the road in case of acceptance of test traffic violations, and plans to be held on 30 June the opening ceremony, canceled after the accident.

construction personnel, three new road along the geological environment is complex, time is short, heavy task in building a post, Xinping shouted “make a big quick-drying 60 days,” the slogan of the progress of the projects Forced , post workers overtime work.

what makes engineering so catch it? Reporters learned that, in addition to travel to meet the requirements of the masses, more important reason is that for national road toll for the abolition of two grants. According to the policy, the new secondary roads shall be June 30 this year, opened to traffic, or can not enjoy the state’s two highway toll abolition of subsidies.

http://www.cnkeyword.info/yunnan-road-test-the-opening-day-collapse...

Details Emerge in Deadly Road Collapse

Cheyenne : WY : USA | Jul 20, 2011
 
Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths may have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes. Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to state Route 130 over South Brush Creek... FULL ARTICLE AT KSAZ

http://www.allvoices.com/news/9730810-details-emerge-in-deadly-road...

 

 

Views: 93131

Comment

You need to be a member of Earth Changes and the Pole Shift to add comments!

Join Earth Changes and the Pole Shift

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 11:16pm

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-32676-One-killed-in-building-coll...

One killed in building collapse

RAWALPINDI: One person died when an under construction building collapsed in Masrial area on Thursday.

An official of Rescue 1122 said that a complaint was received about collapse of an under construction building on Masrial.

On receiving the information, Rescue 1122 personnel reached the spot and started rescue operation. But, their efforts proved to be fruitless as 35 years old Muhammad Akber s/o Banaras had already expired. His body was shifted to District Headquater Hospital (DHQ) for autopsy.

The reason of collapse was yet to be known

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 10:27pm

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/01/26...

Man rescued from JCB in grain silo collapse at Seaforth Docks - 3.35PM UPDATE

January 26, 2012

A TRAPPED warehouse worker was rescued from his JCB after a grain store roof collapsed at Seaforth Docks.

Firefighters were called to a grain warehouse on South Hornby Dock at 10.31 this morning to release the 35-year-old man, after a 50-foot section of a shed roof collapsed.

A search and rescue team were also deployed to look for other workers trapped in the wreckage, though no-one else was injured.

The worker was given first aid and oxygen and released from the JCB at 11.25am.

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service personnel also removed debris in the area of the collapse to help paramedics remove the man from the cab of the JCB.

He was taken to Aintree Hospital but at this stage his injuries are not thought to be serious.

A fire engine from Kirkdale Community Fire Station, an appliance from Crosby Community Fire Station, and the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team based at Croxteth Community Fire Station responded to the call-out.

Port of Liverpool police also attended, cordoning off a section of the road, along with ambulance crews, and the area was cleared by 12.15pm.

As of 2.30pm the incident has yet to be reported to the Health and Safety Executive.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 6:53pm

Man trapped in Leeds wall collapse

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/central-leed...

AN air ambulance was alerted after a supporting wall fell on a man in Leeds today.

The man, believed to be aged around 62, was trapped by the wall in the Manor Garth Road, Kippax, shortly after 3pm.

Fire Service crews were sent to the scene and managed to release the man, but it was not known whether he would be flown to hospital or taken by road ambulance.

The cause of the collapse of the wall and exact circumstances were not immediately known.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 5:21pm

http://tribune.com.pk/story/327382/weak-structures-13-die-in-roof-c...

Weak structures: 13 die in roof collapse incidents

PESHAWAR/KOHISTAN/QUETTA: 

A clutch of roof collapse incidents across the country claimed 13 lives on Wednesday.

Seven people were killed when the roof of a house came crashing down in Peshawar due to a gas leak explosion. Likewise, five people died in Kohistan when the roof of a clay-built house collapsed. A 10-year-old child lost his life in Quetta when the roof of a rickety hotel caved in.

Seven people, including a woman and three children, were killed in the roof-collapse incident in the Namak Mandi area of Peshawar on Wednesday.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Imtiaz told The Express Tribune that the explosion, which took place at around 4:45 am, was the result of a gas leakage.

“Nazar Muhammad, his wife and three daughters were killed, while one daughter was injured,” he said. The DSP said that the wife of Nazar Muhammad’s brother was also killed as a result of the explosion.

Imtiaz added that despite awareness campaigns, people do not turn off gas heaters and incidents like this have become a routine.

Rescue teams rushed to the area and according to a statement issued by Rescue 1122, the disaster emergency response team,rescued Rehman, 29, and Samin, 25, alive and  recovered bodies of Nazar Muhammad, his wife Maryam, 23; Asma, 13; Attia, 12; Aiman, nine; and Waqar, eight, from the debris.

Five labourers, including two brothers, were killed and two others injured seriously when a similar roof collapse incident happened in the remote village of Teshil Pattan in Kohistan on Tuesday evening, police and villagers said.  The injured were shifted to the Bisham hospital where their condition was stated to be critical.

Kohistan District Police Officer Muhammad Ilyas Khan told The Express Tribune that seven mine workers of a local chromite mine were asleep in a clay-built house situated on the foothill of village Darra Jeejal when a heavy mass of earth fell on it.

A 10-year-old boy was killed and two others sustained injuries when the roof of an improvised roadside hotel collapsed on Saryab Road in Quetta on Wednesday.

According to owner of the hotel, there were three people, including a child, having a tea inside the hotel near the New Saryab police station when the roof caved in. As a result, the three were trapped in the rubble.

People at the scene pulled out the body of 10-year-old Faheem and the two injured were also rescued. They were shifted to the Sandeman Hospital where the condition of the injured was stated to be out of danger.

“The hotel was built with mud and it was in very poor condition,” a police official of New Saryab told The Express Tribune.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 5:03pm

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/news_keighley/9492907.Roof_colla...

Roof collapse sparks huge search of building

A massive search was launched in a derelict Keighley building after part of the roof collapsed, sparking fears someone could be trapped beneath the rubble.

A specialist fire service search and rescue team – with a sniffer dog – was called in to sift through the debris at the Harold Town building, in Chesham Street.

A security guard who had raised the alarm shortly after 2am yesterday reported hearing a shout as the section of roof fell.

But firefighters remained at the scene for about six hours and found no one.

Police were initially contacted by the security guard and they then alerted the fire brigade, which mobilised two crews from Keighley Fire Station and the specialist unit from Cleckheaton.

Keighley watch commander Steve Moorhouse said: “It was believed that someone may have been inside the two-storey bit of the building affected by the collapse and could have been trapped. A full search was carried out and we kept one of our crews at the scene until the operation was concluded.”

The Harold Town building, which is owned by Bradford Council, is being demolished. It has stood empty since 2010, when its former occupier, Keighley Campus Leeds City College, moved out.

The one-hectare site is allocated for employment use and once it has been cleared the Council hopes to attract a new employer to the plot.

A Council spokesman said officers visited the site yesterday after the incident and a meeting was taking place to discuss the issue. He said: “During demolition, responsibility for the security and management of the site is passed to the contractor and will be handed back to the Council when the work is completed.”

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 6:32am

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/01/overnight_the_fo...

Overnight, the Former Chumley's in Deep Ellum Became an Open-Air Venue

Articles1.jpg
Photos by Justin Terveen

The sign still says "Articles," but I'll always remember the three-story storefront on Elm and Good-Latimer as Chumley's, located at the acoustic end of Deep Ellum on the heels of Charles Francis "Chumley" Hawkins's late, great Dave's Art Pawn Shop. Everyone played there, from Aimee Mann to Cafe Noir, Lisa Loeb to Rhett Miller, all on their way up. Before that, long ago, that spot had accommodated everything from a lumberyard to a loan-maker to a paint-and-paper company.

Last I looked there was talk of it becoming an ultra-lounge; that didn't pan out. Westdale's been trying to lease the valued-at-$320,000 building ever since. But now, it's sans roof: Justin Terveen was out in the deluge last night, of course, and was there when Dallas Fire-Rescue answered the call. Wrote Justin in the note that arrived in the in-box during the wee small hours of the morning: "Place is thrashed."

Comment by Love is the answer on January 26, 2012 at 5:26am

Videos - Two buildings in Rio collapse

Comment by Love is the answer on January 26, 2012 at 3:26am

Now it's Two buildings collapse in Rio de Janeiro

(Reuters) - Two buildings collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in the latest incident highlighting the failure of authorities to improve the city's infrastructure amid preparations to host soccer's World Cup and the Olympics.

Comment by Love is the answer on January 26, 2012 at 3:04am

RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 11 people were killed or injured Wednesday when an 18-story building in the center of Rio de Janeiro partially collapsed after an explosion, television reports said.

RIO COLLAPSE

Read more: 11 dead or injured in Rio building collapse - Top News - New Strait... http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/11-dead-or-injured-in-rio-building-c...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 26, 2012 at 12:54am

McCleary School storage building collapses under weight of snow

http://www.thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/mccleary-school-st...

THE ROOF WAS ONLY A YEAR OLD.....

<p>Jacob Jones | The Daily World</p><p>A storage building for the McCleary School collapsed under the weight of heavy snow Thursday afternoon.</p>

Jacob Jones | The Daily World

A storage building for the McCleary School collapsed under the weight of heavy snow Thursday afternoon.

The roof of a storage building at the McCleary School collapsed under the weight of rain saturated-snow Thursday afternoon, destroying the building. No one was inside.

The building, built in the 1980s, was used for storage and as an office for transportation services.

It is not directly connected to the school, which serves students from preschool through the eighth grade. The school, with an enrollment of about 330, was closed Thursday because of the heavy snowfall.

A man watching at the scene after the collapse, which happened a little after 1 p.m., said snow had drifted and was particularly deep on one side of the building. The building got a new roof last summer at a cost of about $20,000.

Meantime, the county continues to be hit by extremely hazardous icing conditions and weather related issues. Numerous tree limbs have fallen, mainly in East Grays Harbor County. A number of roads are closed, and although county road crews are working to clear the area they are in danger as icy tree limbs continue to break off and fall, according to Ed McGowan, detective with the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office, who is helping to staff the Emergency Operations Center.

“A couple of workers were close to getting hit, so they have backed off to a safe zone,” said McGowan. “We don’t argue with gravity.”

Identified road closures as of Thursday afternoon include:

• Blue Slough Road is closed due to downed trees blocking both lanes in multiple areas.

• East Satsop Road is closed at milepost 5 due to a landslide blocking both lanes.

• Lambert Road is closed due to downed trees in multiple areas.

• Stamper Road is closed due to downed trees blocking both lanes in multiple areas.

• West Satsop Road is closed due to downed trees blocking both lanes at milepost 4.

For a list of Grays Harbor County closures go to the web at

SEARCH PS Ning or Zetatalk

 
Search:

This free script provided by
JavaScript Kit

Donate

Donate to support Pole Shift ning costs. Thank you!

© 2024   Created by 0nin2migqvl32.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service