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No one was injured in the partial collapse of a warehouse building late Friday afternoon along Tyrol Boulevard in Rostraver.
Township police and firefighters responded when a portion of the structure gave way at about 4:45 p.m., according to a Westmoreland County 911 dispatch supervisor.
The warehouse is considered to be abandoned, but electrical power to the building had to be disconnected, the supervisor said.
No one was in the building at the time, according to Rostraver Police Sgt. Ron Naylor. He said the building once served as a potato chip warehouse but had not been used for some time.
Courtesy of Rostraver Central Fire Department
Emergency vehicles respond after a vehicle strikes a pedestrian on Aug. 21, 2018, at the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
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Residents, environmental activists and local officials say they’re fed up with mud and odors emanating from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
They’re also concerned about radioactive materials they say are present in leachate resulting from waste material the landfill accepts from fracking sites.
Rostraver Commissioner John Lorenzo, speaking Thursday at a virtual press conference hosted by community advocacy group Protect PT, said trucks from the landfill have been tracking mud onto adjacent Tyrol Boulevard, causing many motorists to avoid the road. He speculated that departing trucks may not be “staying in the wash bay long enough.