No Fatalities Reported in Iowa as Officials Plan to Demolish Partially Collapsed Building

Onlookers watch as emergency crews work the scene of a partial building collapse on the 300 block of Main Street, in Davenport, Iowa on May 28, 2023. Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP

Officials in Iowa are making plans to demolish a six-story apartment building a day after it partially collapsed, injuring at least one person and displacing countless residents and business owners. No fatalities have been reported.

City officials in Davenport, a city in eastern Iowa, said in a news release that the property owner was served Monday with an order for demolition of the building that was once the Davenport Hotel. Residents were not being allowed back inside to remove their belongings due to the building’s unstable condition.