[Frank_Discussion]

WTF was a school NEXT DOOR open during the demo!? HELLO!? Holey Moley, Big, BIG prayers on this one!

[I_love_weather]

We walked by this last night...and commented that the whole thing looked unstable and ready to fall.

Guess we were correct...

The demolition crew did a POOR job on handling this.

[Mo1]

WTF was a school NEXT DOOR open during the demo!? HELLO!?

I was thinking the same thing ... what idiots

Sending prayers to the kids trapped

[Lazamataz]

WTF was a school NEXT DOOR open during the demo!

I understand they were trying to open a nursery school right next to the demolition site in time for the demolition, but they were having trouble with paperwork. Something about having a hard time estimating casualties.

[michigander]

When they say "next door", they men "NEXT DOOR" if that school is on the left or the right of the theatre.

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RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR
The Uptown Theatre, shown in August of this year, was once one of Toronto's great cinemas.
It had been slated for demolition following this past Toronto International Film Festival.

[sonsofliberty2000]

My thoughts to. Were they trying to demo it today or did it collapse before hand?

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[Jokelahoma]

Sounds a great deal like the collapse of the Connor Hotel in Joplin, MO is 1978. That building was being prepped for demolition, but it wasn't to be demolished the day it collapsed prematurely. The problem as I remember it (I was all of 13 at the time) was a worker drilling holes in basement support beams for the placement of explosive charges drilled in the wrong order, and the whole hotel came down on top of him and two others. Two died, one was rescued a couple days later. But because it wasn't supposed to come down at that point, the street was not closed off, etc. There was pedestrian traffic outside the building when it came down. It's truly amazing that only two were killed.

Prayers go out to all involved!