Search for survivors of Elliot Lake mall roof collapse ends
610 CKTB News
6/25/2012
Officials say rescue efforts have been called off at the site of a deadly accident at a mall in Elliot Lake.
Bill Needles with the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team says the Algo Centre mall is too unstable for any rescuers to enter safely.
Needles says it's likely that there could be another secondary collapse within the mall at any time.
He says he suspects there are still two bodies trapped inside.
Search efforts were hampered since Sunday by dangerous conditions inside the mall, which saw a part of its roof collapse the day
before.
Earlier today, an unstable escalator forced crews to withdraw their equipment and look for an alternative way to reach anyone
still trapped inside.