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Just one week after a stage roof collapsed before the start of a Radiohead concert, scheduled to have taken place at Downsview Park in Toronto, unfortunately resulting in the death of an individual, comes another even larger structural collapse, this time in the Ontario community of Elliot Lake.
A former makeshift parking lot atop the Algo Centre Mall came crashing down complete with metal and concrete parts dangling, while shoppers were in the mall. A reported 22 people were injured with one or two deaths (not all confirmed).
The blame? Unlike the Downsview stage fiasco which was in part due to inclement weather conditions, the Algo Centre Mall had been, according to officials, experiencing several roof leaks, even though millions had been spent to repair them.
No word yet on the true cause but the above could be a culprit. Officials will continue to investigate.
Let's hope no major mall or building in Canada ever undergoes a brutal rumble. The fact that many of our respective cities infrastructures are antiquated and in serious need of repairs does not bode well. No one wants a repeat of the tragedy that befell the city of Montreal (& environs), when the underpasses proved faulty ensuing in the deaths of a few people driving through them.
For more on the above story of the Algo Mall, go to:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/elliot-lake-mall-roof-collapse-injured-more-20-174514353.html
A former makeshift parking lot atop the Algo Centre Mall came crashing down complete with metal and concrete parts dangling, while shoppers were in the mall. A reported 22 people were injured with one or two deaths (not all confirmed).
The blame? Unlike the Downsview stage fiasco which was in part due to inclement weather conditions, the Algo Centre Mall had been, according to officials, experiencing several roof leaks, even though millions had been spent to repair them.
No word yet on the true cause but the above could be a culprit. Officials will continue to investigate.
Let's hope no major mall or building in Canada ever undergoes a brutal rumble. The fact that many of our respective cities infrastructures are antiquated and in serious need of repairs does not bode well. No one wants a repeat of the tragedy that befell the city of Montreal (& environs), when the underpasses proved faulty ensuing in the deaths of a few people driving through them.
For more on the above story of the Algo Mall, go to:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/elliot-lake-mall-roof-collapse-injured-more-20-174514353.html
