Main street building collapse, Middletown CT 2-2-11

So you dont have to. I went down to main street to see the damage from the building collapse on Main street. -Darrell Lucas From Middletown Patch: Mike DiPiro clearly seemed to feel he was the luckiest man alive. DiPiro co-owns an accounting firm, Guilmartin, DiPiro & Sokolowski, at 505 Main St. He was on the second floor when he heard something crack on the floor above. He and an employee, Chris Conley, went up to investigate. The century-old brick building, a former school, had a gym on the third floor. DiPino and Conley got there just in time to see 2-foot thick ceiling beams bending and cracking. “I said ‘Chris! Run!’ and we grabbed our jackets and ran in front of Luce where we called 911.” DiPiro and Conley were the only ones in the building. At around 10 am, as they watched firefighters string caution tape along the front of the building, they heard another crack. The third floor crumpled into a cloud of brownish dust. “A fire guy said ‘Run!’ and we ran; we were lucky we didn’t get hit by bricks.” A fireman’s helmet fell off and was crushed in the rubble. Force from the accumulated weight of snow, ice and rain on the building’s flat roof sent bricks flying every which way; some were flung nearly all the way across Main Street. Later, a block away, a man shoveling snow off the roof of the building housing Esca restaurant at Main and Washington streets came across some of the bricks. “I thought it was the sturdiest building,” DiPino said. “It used to be a bomb shelter …

Turkey Earthquake 2011 7.2 Quake Near Ercis Causes Death Damage news magnitude 7.2 Earthquake in VAN TURKEY 10 232011 – 7.3. Breaking news Massive Earthquake in Turkey 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Ankara Turkey A 7.2 magnitude quake happened in Turkey this morning. Breaking news reports that a 7.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey, making it the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in ten years. The quake was felt in the provinces of Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Siirt, Mus and Agri The deputy prime minister says the earthquake in eastern Turkey has collapsed around 45 buildings.Besir Atalay says the quake collapsed some 25-30 buildings as well as a dormitory in the eastern town of Ercis in Van province. He says 10 buildings fell in the city of Van.The magnitude-7.2 quake struck Van province on Sunday. 25 apartment buildings and one dormitory in the eastern town of Ercis have collapsed following a large earthquake.The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing buildings and causing a number of deaths, officials said. At least 50 people were injured. The temblor collapsed several buildings in the city of Van as well, authorities said rescuers have pulled out several injured people out of the collapsed dormitory in Ercis turkey earthquake city of van earthquake october 2011 Turkey Ankara Richter Magnitude Scale Earthquake shaken Van in eastern Turkey Turkey Earthquake Earthquake (film) Africa Earthquake Van Turkey Turkiye deprem 23 …