Law enforcement officials have identified Jose Pereira, 43, of Philadelphia, as the worker killed when an eighth-floor balcony collapsed at the Spinnaker Condominiums in Sea Isle City.
At that point, police said, the building was evacuated of all residents.
Police said that they attempted a coordinated recovery plan to breach the outside wall of the building near Pereira's location by cutting through approximately 12-inches of reinforced concrete -- after the 7And, once an opening was created in the wall, law enforcement officials said that the concrete slab was lifted by heavy lift air bags and Pereira's body was successfully recovered.
Firefighters from multiple departments, police and multiple Search & Rescue teams all responded to the scene and were trying to get Pereira out. “Stabilizing the slabs below to prevent any further collapse," he said."Again we don’t know what caused this collapse to happen so we need to think worst-case scenario, prevent those other floors from collapsing. We’re guessing each floor weighs around 11,000 pounds. So it’s quite a bit of work to stabilize that before we could send our first responders in to conduct a rescue.”
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