San Jose firefighters investigating after recycling facility partially collapses; no accidents reported

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — San Jose firefighters are investigating after a recycling facility roof partially collapsed on Friday.

Authorities say firefighters have been first referred to as to the 200 block of Leo Avenue simply after 3 p.m.

Video from SKY7 exhibits a roof caved in at a building supplies recycling facility warehouse south of Pleased Hole Park & Zoo.

Firefighters say all workers are accounted for and drones have been used to find out that no one was trapped beneath the particles. There aren’t any stories of accidents, and the scene was deemed “beneath management.”

The fireplace division says a entrance loader working contained in the constructing hit a help beam. The beam collapsed and that introduced down the complete roof.

“We had among the tresses come down within the center that’s mainly holding up the partitions up,” mentioned Battalion Chief Brett Maas with San Jose Hearth Division.

“It go in, seconds in, goes quick. All of the constructing down. It did not take 5 minutes. It took seconds. The complete constructing down on the ground,” mentioned buyer and eyewitness Armando Alvarez.

Alvarez says he was moments from getting into facility.

“It is loopy that this stuff occur. I am very fortunate. It is my fortunate day,” mentioned Alvarez. “I turned my again. All of the noise — it was shaking the ground, it was shaking the ground.”

Officers say the constructing has been red-tagged.

“The principle construction -the help of this constructing are these I-beams holding it up. At this level, with the wind and issues like that, these partitions are free-floating. There’s nothing holding them up. We might have a secondary collapse,” mentioned Maas.