so that s a standard process and procedure. in this particular incident, a couple things, one, we received a citizen complaint in early may about the property located at 2134 market street. the property in question, the building that fell, the wall of the building that fell yesterday is at 2136 market street. a few days later, an inspector went to the property that had been complained about, which was 2134 market street, found that there were no violations at that time. the property 2136 commonly known as the hoagie city building, that demolition had not yet started. building was fully intact.
of which is to the actual structure that you see heevend you with the theft store sign on i. there is also a wall to the south of the building that needs to be taken down. firefighters and search and rescue folks are very concerned about that particular wall. work will extend probably easily into the afternoon. in the meantime, the perimiter has further been reduced. it is now from 21st treat to 23rd street, from market to arch and 22nd street is still closed from chestnut to arch. all other streets have been released and are opened. with regard to the victim, as i said to many of you who are here
the sign was in place and was no work had been done yet on that particular building. so the building was fully ining the and the structure there at that time. is all the information i have about that, that particular situation, be you there is one inspection required between the time of issuance and the start of the demolition activity. those are the facts on that. i m going to ask commissioner atories give you a little information about a little more deail about what will take place today in terms of personnel and apparatus. then i think pretty much after he has completed, i will be able to answer any questions you may have. mr. ayers. currently, the operation that s gone on right now is the
collapse. she is being treated at the hospital at the university of pennsylvania. so far, we know 14 people were taken out of here. we know six people have died. they believe at this point, at least they hope everyone is accounted for. but they re being very careful to make sure that they look for everyone. the basement in this building was not compromised. they were able to get into the basement. dwlats they believe most of the that s why they believe most of the people are accounted for. as i look to my left the mayor is making his way down here. self people will be joining the press conference. okay. good to know. are we expecting to hear from him anything about a cause? i think that s the biggest question people have right now. reporter: well, yeah, the investigation is ongoing and overnight, we learned some interesting things about the construction site t. manager, the other than, and also the person who is driving the crane. but again, we re waiting to get more information
still optimistic if anybody is trapped, they are going to be able to get to them. so they have been working and will continue do so. no. 2, there sha wall to the south of this bhilding that still needs to be torn down. they are concerned about that. clearly, they have some concerns about whether that may fall again or may fall for the first time and what they might do, so they re watching specifically that side that, south side of the building. thirdly, there are still families who need to be notified of the six victims who died. so they are holding on to that information and those identities until the end of today. they believe by the end of today, they will be able to release the names of those people who perished and lastly, they were talking about an inspection that happened in a building right next door back in may and at that point, the mayor says there was a complaint, they had an inspector go in, everything was fine in may. the building right next to this building that collapse