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6 trapped after façade of Temple City strip mall collapses: LACoFD
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A collapsed façade at a industrial constructing in Temple Metropolis trapped six individuals inside two companies for greater than an hour Wednesday, based on the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division.
The collapse was reported shortly after 4 p.m. within the 9400 block of East Las Tunas Drive, the place a 50-foot-long piece of the constructing fell, trapping 5 individuals in a salon and one particular person in a cleaners.
Whereas there have been no accidents from the collapse, officers needed to take away the particles earlier than these trapped inside might exit, the division mentioned.
“We have now communication with them contained in the constructing. We’re speaking with them and we’re planning on particles elimination of what has collapsed to rescue the civilians inside,” a Fireplace Division official mentioned in a video posted to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Twitter page.
By about 5:30 p.m., these trapped had been freed, the Fire Department announced.