13 transported to hospital after Hard Rock Hotel construction collapse

THE SCENE. I KNOW FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING OUR LAST LIVE REPORT THE GOVERNOR WAS OVER HERE MEETING WITH FIRST. THESE ARE ALL THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS THAT THEY HAVE STAGED AT THIS AREA RIGHT NOW AT ELQ AND CANAL AS THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THE BUILDING IS SECURE WHO IS INSIDE AND WHAT’S GOING ON, BUT CLEARLY THIS IS GOING TO BE AN ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AFFAIR ANYBODY TRAVELING TO THIS AREA THROUGH DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS SHOULD TRY TO AVOID RAMPART L AND CANAL BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A SAFE SITE AND IT’S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY DO HAVE EMERGENCY CREWS TRYING TO ANOTHER POSSIBLE ANOTHER COLLAPSE WON’T HAPPEN. SO IF YOU TAKE A LIVE LOOK UP AT THIS RIGHT NOW FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST JOINING US. THIS IS THE HARD ROCK HOTEL CONSTRUCTION SITE. IT DID COLLAPSE AND IT COLLAPSED HIGH UP THOSE LOOK LIKE THEIR FLOORS FIX THROUGH PROBABLY 12 UP. THERE ARE 6 THROUGH 10, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE CONCRETE GAVE WAY IT LED TO A COLLAPSE. IT LOOKS LIKE IT HIT ONE OF THESE CRANES. IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THIS CRANE TO THE LEFT OVER HERE IS EXACTLY STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW. IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT IS LEANING A LITTLE BIT. SO DESSERT AS WELL FOR DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS THE SAENGER THEATER, WHICH HAS WICKED GOING ON THE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO PERFORMANCES TONIGHT IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR. DON’T KNOW WHAT THE STATUS OF THOSE PRODUCTIONS ARE BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY FIRST RESPONDERS WITH ALL DUE RESPECT HAVE BIGGER FISH TO FRY HERE MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS SAFE AND THAT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL IS CLEARLY SECURE AND THAT THEY WON’T DEAL WITH ANOTHER COLLAPSE, YOU KNOW A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN JANUARY OF 2016 AND THEY HAD A MAJOR FIRE ACROSS THE STREE THAT WAS A FIVE ALARM FIRE. SURE, THAT THAT STANDPOINT. THIS IS A MAJOR HOTEL SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT SOUTH RAMPART PROBABLY BETWEEN I WOULD SAY MAYBE I GUESS IT WOULD BE IBERVILLE AND CANAL WOULD PROBABLY BE SHUT FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL DAYS AND MAYBE SEVERAL WEEKS AT THIS STANDPOINT JUST BECAUSE THIS IS A MAJOR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION SITE THAT JUST COLLAPSED HERE IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS IF WE CAN GET ANY OF ANY OF YOUS CHARLESTON FOR ALL OUR VIEWERS OUT THERE WILL TRY TO BRING YOU THOSE INTERVIEWS, BUT THE ISSUE IS HUNDREDS ARE STAGING AS SOON AS WE HEAR ANYTHING FROM THE GOVERNOR THE POLICE CHIEF THE MAYOR FIREFIGHTERS WHO WERE HERE AT THE SCENE. WE WILL BRING THOSE INTERVIEWS TO YOU, BUT THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO COME TO GRIPS AND GET A HANDLE ON THIS SITUATION AS HE JUST HAPPENED. PROBABLY IN THE LAST 80 OR SO MINUTES. CHARLES TRAVERS MACKEL ON THE SCENE ARE AT RAMPART NORTH RAMPART AND CANAL STREET. YOU SEE THAT THE PARTIAL COLLAPSE OF THE HARD ROCK HOTEL THAT’S BEEN BEING BUILDS A IN HOTEL WITH 350 ROOMS FROM RESIDENCES THAT WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING BUILT. OF COURSE, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION ON THE FIRST INJURIES ARE CONCERNED, BUT OBVIOUSLY, IT’S SATURDAY, WHICH IS A POSITIVE THING FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET AND PEOPLE THEY’RE WORKING AS WELL. AND THAT IS THE MAIN QUESTION IS ANYONE HURT IF SO HOW MANY PEOPLE WE ARE SEEING REPORTS. NONE OF WHICH ARE CONFIRMED SO WE WILL NOT SAY THOSE TO YOU, BUT I DO WANT TO READ A COUPLE OF COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT FIRSTHAND SOMEONE SAYING THA SOUND WAS LIKE LOW FLYING FIGHTER. THE VIEWS FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE UP AT HOTELS THAT WERE NEARBY AND THEN A RUBY SLIPPER. THAT’S RIGHT NEXT DOOR. THEY ARE GOING TO BE CLOSED FOR THE REST OF THE DAY BECAUSE OF THAT. WE’RE GETTING A LOT OF PICTURES IN JUST LIKE THIS ONE FROM NEW ORLEANS FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO ALSO TWEETED A PICTURE OF FIRE CHIEF MCCONNELL AS WELL AS CURRENT GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS WHO WAS HERE FOR A CAMPAIGN EVENT BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS IS ELECTION DAY, BUT RIGHT NOW HE’S ON THE GROUND TRYING TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE AND GET AN IDEA OF WHAT HAPPENED. WHAT CAUSED THIS AND AGAIN THE BIG QUESTION CHARLES WAS ANYBODY HURT. AREA AT CANAL IN NORTH RAMPART IS AN ACTIVE SCENE. THEY’RE SAYING STAY AWAY FROM THAT. YOU HAVE TO GO IN THIS AREA FOR ANY REASON AVOID THE AREA RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN SEE THE DESTRUCTION YOU ON THE STREETS KILLING OFF ON TO CANAL STREET AS WELL. OF COURSE TODAY BEING AN ELECTION DAY PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON. SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK FROM OUR SKYCAM THERE YOU CAN KIND OF GET A SENSE OF WHERE THAT BUILDING IS IN THE PART OF DOWNTOWN AND WE KNOW THAT THAT QUITE A F FEW PEOPLE RIGHT NOW ARE WANTING TO KIND OF THE FEAR RIGHT NOW IS WILL THE BUILDING COLLAPSE ANYMORE BECAUSE THIS IS ONLY A PARTIAL COLLAPSE THE ENTIRE BUILDING DID NOT FULLY COLLAPSED. SO THAT IS WHY THERE ARE SO MANY CREWS ON THE SCENE RIGHT NOW AND SPEAKING OF CREWS ON THE SCENE. WE HAVE OUR REPORTER TRAVERS MACKEL ON THE GROUND RIGHT THERE TRAVERS. YOU’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SEEING FIRSTHAND WH IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW? WELL, I CAN TELL YOU THEY GOT EMERGENCY CREWS REALLY EVERYWHERE. LET’S JUST LOOK THIS WAY. YOU CAN SEE FIRE CREWS RIGHT HERE ALL THE WAY DOWN ELKS TREE. WE COULD HAVE RIGHT HERE. THIS IS IN FRONT OF THE JOY THEATER RIGHT NOW. LOTS OF PEOPLE LOTS OF TOURISTS IN TOWN. THEY ARE ALL SITTING HERE WATCHING US. WE’LL JUST GONNA KIND OF WALK THIS WAY I’LL SHOW YOU A BETTER VANTAG POINT RIGHT DOWN HERE. YOU CAN SEE THESE ARE ALL THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS THAT WERE IN THAT PROPERTY RIGHT THERE LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER CHRISTINA AND CHARLES THE GOVERNOR IS HERE. IT’S OUR UNDERSTANDING POLICE FIRE AND BASICALLY EVERY EMERGENCY OPERATOR AND RESPONDER BECAUSE THE TRYING TO SHUT UP HERE REMAIN STABLE. I THINK THAT THEY’RE CONCERNED THAT IF IT FELL ABOUT 90 MINUTES AGO COULD ANOTHER COLLAPSE POSSIBLY HAPPEN. I DON’T KNOW. I THINK I PROBABLY TRYING TO BRING IN SOME KIND OF STRUCTURAL OR CIVIL ENGINEER OR EXPERT AT THIS TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUILDING IS SOUND AND WON’T COLLAPSE, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE A SAFETY HAZARD FOR DAYS IF NOT WEEKS BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE DAMAGE. I MEAN THERE ARE CONCRETE IT LOOKS LIKE PILLARS THAT ARE HANGING OFF THAT BUILDING UP THERE PROBABLY 810. ABLE TO SEE IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS AS WE DON’T KNOW IF ANYBODY WAS INJURED. WE DON’T KNOW IF ANYBODY’S TRAPPED INSIDE. IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THEY’RE DOING ANY KIND OF RESCUE EFFORT. SO THAT’S THAT’S GOOD NEWS RIGHT NOW, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE ALL THE PEOPLE STAYING IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS. WE ARE IN THE BUSY TOURISM SEASON SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER HAVE COME OUT TO TRY TO WATCH WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. LET’S SEE IF WE CAN MAYBE MOVE OVER THIS WAY AND G A BETTER VANTAGE POINT. RIGHT THROUGH HERE. YOU CAN SEE AGAIN. CONSTRUCTION CREWS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS THIS IS THE LOWS THEATER. THE SINGER IS ACROSS THE STREET. THAT IS THE CONSTRUCTION UP THERE FOR THE NEW HARD ROCK HOTEL AND YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW BIG OF A SEEN THIS IS IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS AND IT’S GOING TO REMAIN A BIG SCENE. I WOULD SAY FOUR DAYS IF NOT WEEKS BECAUSE OF THE DAMAGE UP THERE. I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY EVEN ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES WHEN YOU GET INTO THIS WHEN THE SCENE IS CLEAR. LET’S COME THIS WAY A LITTLE BIT. HERE’S THE FUNNY. ONLY AN OVERHANG AND YOU CAN SEE THE CONCRETE IS BENT AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S KIND OF HANGING A LITTLE BIT SO MAJOR PIECES OF DEBRIS FALL ONTO THE STREET. LIKE I SAID, WE’RE STILL TRYING TO WAIT FOR POLICE FIRE EMS AND EVERYBODY ELSE OUT HERE TO GET A HANDLE ON JUST HOW BAD THE DAMAGE IS. WAS ANYONE INJURED WHAT LED TO THIS COLLAPSE SO THAT IS THE SCENE RIGHT NOW HERE AT EL CANAL AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT HERE BEHIND THE POLICE TAPE. JUST COMING OUT HERE TO CHECK OUT. WHAT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND ALL OF THESE FIRST RESPONDERS OUT HERE AT THE SCENE IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS, BUT SEEING YOU DON’T

1 dead, 3 missing, 18 transported to hospital after Hard Rock Hotel construction collapse

Updated: 1:16 PM EDT Oct 12, 2019

Emergency officials are on the scene of a partial building collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans.According to EMS officials, one person is dead, three people are missing, and 18 have been taken to an area hospital for treatment.NOLA Ready said the New Orleans Fire Department, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services and the New Orleans Police Department are responding to the structure collapse.Officials said it’s an active scene and asked people to avoid the area at this time. This is a developing story.Watch the video below for live updates.

NEW ORLEANS —

Emergency officials are on the scene of a partial building collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans.

According to EMS officials, one person is dead, three people are missing, and 18 have been taken to an area hospital for treatment.

Acadian Ambulance provided mutual aid to NOLA EMS at the building collapse this morning. We responded with 12 units and transported 13 patients. We have two units remaining on standby

— Acadian Companies (@AcadianNews) October 12, 2019

NOLA Ready said the New Orleans Fire Department, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services and the New Orleans Police Department are responding to the structure collapse.

Officials said it’s an active scene and asked people to avoid the area at this time.

This is a developing story.

Watch the video below for live updates.