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New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapses: Catastrophic Building Disaster Revisits Tragedy in the Iconic French Quarter Without warning, an 18-story building under construction on Canal Street at the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter began to collapse just after 9:00 on Saturday morning. The building was to be a New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel when completed. More than 100 workers were in the structure at the time of the deadly calamity. By mid-afternoon, emergency personnel reported that at least one…

One Dead After Hard Rock Hotel Construction Collapse in New Orleans New Orleans officials have confirmed that one person has been killed and two more are missing after a partial collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel. The upper six floors of the hotel, which was under construction on Canal Street near the city’s famous French Quarter, collapsed onto each other just after 9 a.m. this morning. Although the number of victims injured in the accident was reported to be “in…

One Dead, at Least Three Injured in Dallas Construction Crane Collapse Second crane accident death in Dallas County since 2017 High winds associated with a line of severe thunderstorms that moved through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex early Sunday afternoon are believed to be responsible for the collapse of a heavy construction crane in Downtown Dallas. Early reports from Dallas say that one person was killed and two suffered critical injuries when the crane collapsed and crashed into an occupied apartment…