Mike Crowley和Keith Gushard
Pa的Meadville Tribune。
（MCT）
Mar. 1—Bill Grasinger was sitting down with a customer at his Hovis Interiors furniture store Monday afternoon when an enormous crash erupted outside the front door through which the customer had walked a moment before.
“It sounded like the front of the building fell off,” he said, “and that’s what happened.”
从最上面的窗户上方的一部分砖块，并在下午5点之后伸展近一半的建筑物宽度的宽度。片刻之后，一堆数百块砖散落在人行道上，一些休息在街边停车场停车斑和街道本身，因为其他人岌岌可危地从堕落的部分的边缘垂下来。
No injuries occurred in the incident, according to Chief Patrick Wiley of Meadville Central Fire Department, and besides the building’s facade little seemed to have been damaged.
“No one got hit,” Wiley said from in front of the building shortly after the bricks fell. “Luck was on our side.”
Chestnut Street between Park Avenue and Federal Court was closed as a result of the facade failure, city officials announced Monday evening. Due to the closure, the city-owned parking lot located between Chestnut and West Cherry streets next to the Academy Theatre is inaccessible.
Grasinger was in surprisingly good spirits after the incident.
“It’s too bad it happened,” he said, “but the only good thing is nobody got hurt.”
Grasinger said several customers had entered shortly before the incident, adding that he and his employees enter and exit numerous times each day through the front door near where the bricks landed.
“It didn’t even hit the cars parked right in front,” Grasinger said.
It did shock people nearby, however.
“这是一个超大的崩溃 - 它是可怕的，”查理安德森说他听到的噪音。“这一切都立刻崩溃了。”
Anderson是Meadville公共工程部门的工作主管，在街道下跌时，在学院剧院旁边的街边停车场坐在他的卡车上。安德森正在等待他的儿子，谁是由于位于霍瓦斯内饰旁边的大厦的Keystone强度健身房。
“I came running over and nobody was under them,” Anderson said, adding that two people had walked by moments before the fall.
Main Street Firefighting: A Modern Take on Legacy Buildings
Wiley estimated the fallen section was about 3 feet tall by about 15 feet long and speculated that recent cycles of freezing and thawing had contributed to the bricks’ failure. Glancing up to the gap in the facade left by the missing brickwork, Wiley recalled taking a similar look at the front of the building within the past few weeks and noticing nothing out of the ordinary. “No bulging, no nothing,” he said.
星期一晚上被召集到场景的博览会咨询工程师的Ashley Porter以帮助评估情况。
拥有家具店和与妻子合作建筑物的克拉斯格表示，承包商今天预计将开始去除堕落的碎片并使立面安全，尽管永久性维修可能需要等到春天。Grasinger赞赏Meadville Central，City官员和他所要求的其他业务的快速反应。在几个小时内，围绕受影响的人行道和街道地区安装围栏，以防止行人进入消防员所建立的安全带下。
HOVIS Interiors今天将为业务开放，克拉格补充道。客户可以通过后台入口访问商店。克拉格康辛说，建筑物后部可提供有限的停车场。
Calling the incident “part of the trials and tribulations of owning a building,” he said, “I’m so happy that nothing happened to everybody that I’m almost not worried about the rest of it.”
Grasinger表示，损坏的建筑物，曾经回到Spirella Corset Company，超过110岁。
Updates on the street closure will be posted online atCityofmeadville.org.在城市的Facebook页面上。有关更多信息，请致电（814）724-6000的城市建筑。
Mike Crowley can be reached at (814) 724-6370 or by email atmcrowley@meadvilletribune.com。Keith Gushard可以达到（814）724-6370或通过电子邮件达到kgushard@meadvilletribune.com。
___
(c)2022 The Meadville Tribune (Meadville, Pa.)
Visit The Meadville Tribune (Meadville, Pa.) at meadvilletribune.com
