Beware the Structural Carcass: Building Collapse After the Fire Is Out

BY ANTHONY AVILLO

Consider the following line-of-duty death (LODD) incidents:

When the building is damaged (destroyed) to the point where occupancy will never happen again or not for a very long time, do not permit firefighters to go in, around, on top of, or under the “structural carcass.” Like a turkey after a Thanksgiving feast, all that are left are the battered bones of the building-nothing more than a skeleton (photos 1, 2).

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