Vancouver Building Demolition Goes Awry

Jun 11th 2010 – 5:02PM
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CBC News
A pair of YouTube videos showing a Vancouver building collapsing twice onto a city street during a demolition is raising serious questions about safety in the construction industry.

The first video shows a crane knocking a two-storey brick or concrete wall of the building over, narrowly missing at least one person and car on the 1100 block of Hornby Street.

A second video appears to show the excavator knocking a second wall into the street a short time later, taking a lamp post down with it.


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