The Village of Wappingers Falls is still reeling from a massive explosion on Thursday that destroyed an apartment building and left 15 people seriously injured.
The Village of Wappingers Falls is still reeling from a massive explosion on Thursday that destroyed an apartment building and left 15 people seriously injured.
The Village of Wappingers Falls is still reeling from a massive explosion on Thursday that destroyed an apartment building and left 15 people seriously injured.
attorney this morning and we were talking whenever it is moving forward that we would be fully onboard and she would be asking the grand jury to look at this matter. [ inaudible question ] i m sorry? [ inaudible question ] like all of us, answers. any of the spanish media have a question? spanish right here. [ speaking foreign language ] and as the questions continue we will bring you any headlines out of that, but i wanted to bring in greg battista, who is president of g. battista engineering and construction in florida who worked on this building years ago, not most recently, but i wanted to ask you, mr. battista for anything you can tell us about the images, particularly that we saw from the miami herald today. the paper reporting pictures of a pool contractor of water in the tower s garage.
of things that that led to this catastrophic collapse. let me ask you, mr. battista, finally, would you live in that other tower or similar buildings and similar construction in that area? i have the benefit of my experience and obviously, i would have no problem living in the building if i went in there and i did an inspection. i really wouldn t. as a normal resident you don t know who is the inspector, you don t know how frequently and you don t know if the 40-year report sat for three years without anyone taking action on it. but you didn t let me finish my point. okay. the point is that people that live in these buildings, you don t have to be an engineer to see a crack on the wall. you don t have to be an engineer to see that something s shifted, that something looks off. you live there and you go to these buildings every day. i get calls every single day here in my office at g. battista engineering construction where i d say 50% of those are