A woman was freed from the rubble of the Davenport, Iowa apartment building hours after it collapsed by having her leg amputated: 'Like a miracle that she's here.'
— One moment Lexus Berry and her wife were rushing toward the door of their fourth-floor apartment and the next, Quanishia"Peach" Berry was gone.
"It's definitely something that's like a miracle that she's here," Lexus Berry said."Due to the circumstances, they had to make a judgment call. And that's the best thing for her, honestly, because she's still here." Toriana Hill and her 3-year-old son Nassir Gladney were among those who sought help Wednesday at a newly opened American Red Cross shelter several miles from the downtown building.
"It was bricks already falling so I'm like, 'how the hell am I going to do this, how the hell am I going to do this?'" she said."I just kept running. I kept running until I hit the first floor, and by the time I made it to the door, I don't know if it was the police officer or the fireman snatched me up, but I was just happy I made it out."
The newspaper also published comments by Ryan Shaffer, a co-owner of a masonry company that was doing work near the now-partially collapsed building. Shaffer said Wold asked him for a quote for work on the building but rejected it as too costly. In part, Shaffer said, the high cost was because of a need to support the building.
"No heat. No air now," said Dionte Mcmath, co-owner of the shop 4th Street Nutrition told CBS News."The ceilings, water leaking in two different spots. Cracks in the walls that they were supposed to come and fix."County records show Davenport Hotel, L.L.C. acquired the building in 2021 in a deal worth $4.2 million.
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