![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. “We do what the building tells us to do,” Rick Halleran, the task force’s Cedar Rapids division chief, said of the delay in searching the building.Ĭity 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. The remains of the six-story apartment building were constantly in motion in the first 24 to 36 hours after it collapsed on Sunday, which officials said posed a risk to rescuers who were trying to search for survivors. The focus has shifted to shoring up the structure so recovery efforts can begin. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa task force has completed its search for survivors at the site of a partially collapsed Davenport apartment building without finding three missing people who are feared dead, authorities said Friday. ![]()
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