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Building collapses in downtown Davenport; casualties unknown

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A tenant said the building had water damage and said people there had warned it could collapse
Part of a building collapsed in Davenport on Sunday evening. It was not immediately known if there were any injuries or deaths, or if anyone was trapped.
Davenport Police Department asked people to avoid downtown after the red brick building on Main Street collapsed. The department said on its Facebook page that a nearby church was being used as a reunification point.
The cause of the collapse around 5 p.m. was not immediately known.
The Quad-City Times reported Robert Robinson, who lived on the building’s second floor, walked outside for a smoke break and went back in as alarms went off.
“When we started to go back in the lights went out,” he told the newspaper. “All of a sudden everybody started running out saying the building collapsed. I’m glad we came down when we did.”
Robinson and his girlfriend were able to take the elevator down just in time, he said.

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