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Delhi News-Record
| 12 months ago
An internationally recognized rescue expert says he was turned away from the flattened mall disaster in Elliott Lake...International, has contributed or led rescue efforts in Japan, Haiti and Ground Zero following 911. He got a call from a resident...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Elliot Lake, Ont., after the roof of a mall collapsed last weekend. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio's The House , Candice Hoeppner, parliamentary secretary to the minister of Public Safety, told host Evan Solomon that it's now up to the...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The owner of the Elliot Lake, Ontario, mall whose roof collapsed, killing two women, did not attend a news conference at the mall because of death threats. Bob Nazarian, the owner of Eastwood Mall, was not at a news conference Thursday regarding...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Story The Algo Centre Mall collapsed Saturday afternoon, leaving two women dead and the northern Ontario town's commercial focal point buried in rubble...Horwath added her voice to local NDP MPP Mike Mantha's, saying an independent inquiry is needed...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Story When a section of the Algo Centre Mall caved in Saturday it meant the destruction of not only a significant portion of the city's retail shops, but also the library, one of two grocery stores, one of two hotels, the health unit office, a...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Ontario's opposition leader called for a full review of a mall collapse in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake Thursday, comparing the province's response to that of the U.S. government's following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Progressive...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Rescue workers wait to access the wreckage of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, as cranes remove debris caused by the mall's roof collapsed last Saturday. Watch Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty holds a news...
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Canadian Free Press
| 12 months ago
There are calls for a public inquiry after two bodies were pulled from a caved-in mall in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake...If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for your own purposes beyond the 'fair use' exception, you...
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Delhi News-Record
| 12 months ago
The provincial police have not ruled out criminal charges following the deadly collapse of a mall roof in this northern Ontario city...Marc Depatie said the investigation could take several months. "Should any criminal malfeasance be determined by...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Rescue workers wait to access the wreckage of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, as cranes remove debris caused by the mall's roof collapsed last Saturday. Tragedy Rescue workers wait to access the wreckage of the...
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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
Officials at the site of a deadly roof collapse in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake say two bodies have been removed from the rubble. Bill Neadles of the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team says a second victim was pulled from the wreckage of...
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Newyork Times
| 12 months ago
2 Killed in Mall Collapse Published: June 27, 2012 Officials recovered two bodies after dismantling a piece of a partly collapsed shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario , on Wednesday and said they were confident that no other victims were inside.
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Story Police keep watch as a rescue operation continues at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on June 27, 2012. The Globe and Mail Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty holds a news conference at Queens Park on June 15, 2012. The Canadian Press...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Search and rescue crew members heard "tapping" from within the rubble at the Algo Centre Mall, but were unable to reach two women killed in the roof collapse at the Elliot Lake, Ont., shopping centre. Jim Lawson, a search manager with the Heavy Urban...
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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
Canada is in desperate need of more local and regional search-and-rescue teams, says a disaster management expert. Had such teams existed in northern Ontario, they could have responded more efficiently to the roof collapse this past weekend in Elliot...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Story Police keep watch as a rescue operation continues at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on June 27, 2012. The Globe and Mail Watch Rescue workers wait to access the wreckage of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Wednesday,...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months ago
I'm confident we have eliminated all of the options, and in my opinion, it would be a very big surprise to me to find anybody." Earlier, Ontario Commissioner of Community Safety Dan Hefky announced that rescuers had recovered a body from the debris...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months ago
Ontario shopping mall and said they don't believe other victims are inside. The renewed rescue effort came after angry residents shouted down fears that the unstable structure made the work too risky to continue. Bill Neadles, a spokesman for the...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Rescue workers removed one body and prepared to remove another from a collapsed shopping mall in the northern Ontario town of Elliot Lake on Wednesday after heavy equipment operators worked through the night to penetrate tonnes of concrete rubble.
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Seattle Times
| 12 months ago
The renewed rescue effort came after angry residents shouted down fears that the unstable structure made the work too risky to continue.
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
A body was removed Wednesday morning from a collapsed Canadian shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, but wasn't immediately identified by officials. CTV News footage showed six rescue workers carrying a litter with a body entirely wrapped in a...
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Toronto Star
| 12 months ago
ONT.One body has been recovered from the debris at Algo Centre Mall, officials confirmed at 9:40 on Wednesday morning. We have spoken to the families of the person, said Dan Hefkey, commissioner for community safety for Ontario. He did not release a...
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Delhi News-Record
| 12 months ago
A body has been pulled from the site of the collapsed mall in this northern Ontario city. With heads bowed, the helmeted workers walked out of the rubble on Wednesday morning carrying a covered stretcher. They walked between a line of rescue workers...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Rescue workers have removed what appeared to be a body from the rubble of a caved-in mall in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake. Officials have not confirmed any details, but television footage showed some rescue workers taking off their hard...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Heavy equipment is used in stabilization and rescue efforts at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont. on June 24, 2012. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty holds a news conference at Queens Park on June 15, 2012. The Canadian Press video A rescue...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Story In Pictures Heavy equipment is used in stabilization and rescue efforts at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont. on June 24, 2012. Watch Sitting in lawn chairs and standing beneath umbrellas, they watched on Tuesday as truckloads of heavy...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
People in Elliot Lake, Ont., are anxiously waiting for word about survivors or victims, days after part of a roof collapsed at a local mall. It's a painful time for those who narrowly escaped the disaster, and also for the family and friends of those...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
The others are based in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg and Halifax, all under the umbrella of Public Safety Canada...When he's not volunteering, Staff Inspector Neadles heads the Toronto police force's Public Safety Unit, which deals with cases that...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
Story There will be a time for questions that need to be asked about what and when, and how and why not, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday, after being asked how a race to reach potential survivors could be halted and then resumed only after his...
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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
One day after authorities stopped then quickly restarted search and rescue operations after a roof collapsed at a northern Ontario shopping mall, questions turned to the speed and adequacy of the provincial response to a disaster that has claimed an...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Story Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty holds a news conference at Queens Park on June 15, 2012. The Canadian Press Watch The collapsed roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont...Watch Eastwood Mall Inc., which owns Algo, is controlled by Bob...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Late Monday afternoon, rescue crews called off the search for possible survivors in a northern Ontario mall collapse after deeming the structure "totally unsafe." Hours later, following impassioned pleas from local residents to continue searching and...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 12 months ago
Ontario Rescue crews geared up Tuesday to start dismantling a partially collapsed mall in northern Ontario city in an effort to rescue victims despite fading hopes of finding anyone alive. Officials planned to use heavy equipment to clear a path from...
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The Globe and Mail
| 12 months ago
A rescue worker walks towards the emergency staging post at the site of the collapsed roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario on Monday June 25, 2012. Watch The collapsed roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont...Watch Workers...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Officials in Elliot Lake, Ont. said Tuesday afternoon they were planning to start dismantling part of a collapsed shopping mall to rescue anyone still trapped inside. Bill Needles of the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team said heavy machinery was on...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Cautious and delicate rescue operations resumed Tuesday at the scene of a Canadian shopping mall roof collapse in Elliot Lake, Ontario, officials said. The rooftop parking lot came crashing down into the two-story mall Saturday afternoon and...
