The floor of a store on Hillel Street in Jerusalem collapsed today (Monday) into the parking lot below. There were no casualties in the incident. This is a floor in a minimarket store about 20 meters in size, when only the store owner was present at the time of the collapse and rescued himself.
Lieutenant Tafser Eli Edri, Commander of the Nation’s Fire and Rescue Area: “We were informed of a collapse of a store floor and sidewalk to a parking lot below, after the parking lot ceiling collapsed into the parking lot. Casualties or trapped people were found. “
Edri added that “the collapse happened while the store was open and on a street that was usually crowded with people. Probably because of the closing conditions, there were very few civilians in the parking lot and on the street, thus avoiding a major disaster.”
Dangerous building teams arrived at the scene, the Emergency and Security Division, the Shefa Division of the Jerusalem Municipality, which will work in the coming hours to close the compound in order to create support for the structure and prevent sub-collapses. The event is fully handled by the professional staff of the Jerusalem Municipality.
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The scene of the store collapse on Hillel Street in Jerusalem (Photo: Police Spokeswoman)
The scene of the collapse of the store on Hillel Street in Jerusalem (Photo: Fire and Rescue for Israel, Jerusalem District)