Mall roof collapse injures at least 4 in N. Ontario
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Yeah, I doubt if the engineers are responsible for making sure routine maintenance is carried out. If I was an engineer, I'd make sure right beside my signature was an expiry date.
Is anyone else noting a sudden interest in roof repairs that seemed evidently necessary a couple years ago? Locally one Building Supply store has decided that all the pails obstruct customer flow through the store aisles. 
Roof repairs were an ongoing thing. I suspect the problem had more to do with structure than just the roof - based on experiencing some rides on the bouncing escalator and on photos of rusted columns, shifting brickwork and cracked penthouse flooring. That place has been doomed for yearsIs anyone else noting a sudden interest in roof repairs that seemed evidently necessary a couple years ago? Locally one Building Supply store has decided that all the pails obstruct customer flow through the store aisles.
Rescue team veterans from Haiti and September 11 turned back from helping in Elliot Lake mall disaster
As police and firefighters from across Ontario streamed into the site of the Elliot Lake mall collapse this week, arguably one of the most hardened rescue groups on the scene — veterans of 9/11, the Haiti Earthquake and the Costa Concordia sinking — were never even allowed past the police tape.
“We’ve been on standby since arriving, and if you’re a results-oriented person, the worst thing in the world is to be on standby,” John Green, chief of Special Operations for Ottawa-based International Rescue, told the Post Wednesday.
The group, an Ottawa-based rescue non-profit, was summoned to Elliot Lake by a call from a private citizen. The roof on the Algo Centre Mall caved in at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday; by 2:55 p.m., an Elliot Lake resident (“He’d heard about what we’d done in Haiti,” Mr. Green said) got the organization on the phone.
About 40 hours later, Mr. Green — along with six team members — pulled into the small Northern Ontario town in a specially outfitted fire truck, hauling a trailer packed with lifts, supports, concrete-cutting chainsaws, liquid nitrogen, concrete-cracking explosives and thermite charges.
Of course, by then, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour had barred access to the unstable structure, and the Toronto-based Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team had just informed a crowd of locals that it had called off rescue efforts.
“At 11 p.m. [Monday], they just came out and said, ‘go home, we don’t want you on scene,’ which was a little bit of a kick,” Mr. Green said. “We’ve been to over 30 of these and we’ve never been told to go home.
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Rescue team veterans from Haiti and September 11 turned back from helping in Elliot Lake mall disaster | News | National Post
As police and firefighters from across Ontario streamed into the site of the Elliot Lake mall collapse this week, arguably one of the most hardened rescue groups on the scene — veterans of 9/11, the Haiti Earthquake and the Costa Concordia sinking — were never even allowed past the police tape.
“We’ve been on standby since arriving, and if you’re a results-oriented person, the worst thing in the world is to be on standby,” John Green, chief of Special Operations for Ottawa-based International Rescue, told the Post Wednesday.
The group, an Ottawa-based rescue non-profit, was summoned to Elliot Lake by a call from a private citizen. The roof on the Algo Centre Mall caved in at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday; by 2:55 p.m., an Elliot Lake resident (“He’d heard about what we’d done in Haiti,” Mr. Green said) got the organization on the phone.
About 40 hours later, Mr. Green — along with six team members — pulled into the small Northern Ontario town in a specially outfitted fire truck, hauling a trailer packed with lifts, supports, concrete-cutting chainsaws, liquid nitrogen, concrete-cracking explosives and thermite charges.
Of course, by then, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour had barred access to the unstable structure, and the Toronto-based Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team had just informed a crowd of locals that it had called off rescue efforts.
“At 11 p.m. [Monday], they just came out and said, ‘go home, we don’t want you on scene,’ which was a little bit of a kick,” Mr. Green said. “We’ve been to over 30 of these and we’ve never been told to go home.
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Rescue team veterans from Haiti and September 11 turned back from helping in Elliot Lake mall disaster | News | National Post
I find it so strange as I hear more and more about this goat rodeo.
I live out on the prairies, with many agricultural and industrial dealerships
close to my home. At work we rent mobile cranes often, and have wheel
loaders and a track-hoe and a bulldozer in the yard much of the time that
we can just go fire up when needed.
Hell, out here, most Farmers (or their neighbours) have the equipment
sitting in their quansets to drag an escalator out of a hole....and down
in the patch where I work, heavy equipment sits all over the place
whe not in use, and most people (many in most crowds) know how
to use them. Different worlds I guess.
I live out on the prairies, with many agricultural and industrial dealerships
close to my home. At work we rent mobile cranes often, and have wheel
loaders and a track-hoe and a bulldozer in the yard much of the time that
we can just go fire up when needed.
Hell, out here, most Farmers (or their neighbours) have the equipment
sitting in their quansets to drag an escalator out of a hole....and down
in the patch where I work, heavy equipment sits all over the place
whe not in use, and most people (many in most crowds) know how
to use them. Different worlds I guess.
Word is, the last inspection was conducted by an unqualified engineer
Last Elliot Lake mall safety inspection had errors: lawyer | CTVNews
Last Elliot Lake mall safety inspection had errors: lawyer | CTVNews
