Crews working at the scene of a partial building collapse in Vancouver recovered the body of a missing male employee on Friday night.
Vancouver Fire and Rescue said in a statement the man was pulled from the debris but declared deceased by paramedics on the scene.
Eight people were rescued from the building Thursday night, hours after the collapse occurred when a bobcat-style loader was moving large piles of soil on the rooftop parking lot when it gave way into the office space below. The statement says about 90 people were working in the building at the time of the collapse and most of them were able to get themselves out of the building.
Trevor Connelly, the assistant deputy chief of operations for Vancouver's fire department, said earlier Friday the situation was very unstable and dangerous.He said search crews were fairly confident the man was buried in the rubble based on eyewitness reports and the location of his cellphone.
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