MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A crane towering over a construction site in an upscale Miami neighborhood toppled onto a passing vehicle Monday morning, setting it on fire and injuring the driver and three construction workers, officials said.<\/p>\n
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Officials say four people were hospitalized after a crane collapsed at a Miami construction site
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The collapse occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Monday in the city\u2019s upscale Brickell neighborhood
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Miami Fire Chief Robert Hevia says he’s thankful a call involving a collapsed crane and a burning car had no fatalities
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The crane operator was able to jump out of the crane, and rescue crews were able to cut two construction workers out of a storage container that had been partially crushed during the collapse<\/p>\n
The collapse occurred shortly after 8 a.m. in the city\u2019s Brickell neighborhood. Miami Fire Chief Robert Hevia said at a news conference Monday that he was thankful no one was killed in the crane collapse and car fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been on the fire department for 28 years, when you see the scene, it\u2019s impressive,” Hevia said. \u201cThe fact that we had four victims, and they were all able to be extricated or self-extricate themselves with minor injuries is a remarkable day for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
A woman driving on a street next to the construction site saw the crane begin to fall over, Hevia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to see the crane falling, pull the car in reverse and pop out of the back while the car\u2019s on fire, really incredible,\u201d he said, adding that the crane also crushed two unoccupied parked cars but fell on a storage container with two construction workers inside.<\/p>\n
The two workers who had been trapped, along with the crane operator who managed to jump out as the crane was tipping over, were all transported to a nearby trauma center with minor injuries, Hevia said. The woman driving the car also had minor injuries and was taken to a different hospital. Officials haven\u2019t identified the injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very complex scene with a fire that was occurring; our crews were putting out the fire and our technical rescue team working simultaneously to cut through the conex box, the construction box, and they were able to successfully extricate the two victims,\u201d Hevia said, confirming that all other workers at the construction site were accounted for.<\/p>\n
Officials have not said what caused the crane, specifically a piling rig, to topple, and Hevia said the collapse is under investigation. A piling rig usually shares the same base as a traditional crane, but its upper part is designed to drive columns deep into the ground to support large structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A crane towering over a construction site in an upscale Miami neighborhood toppled onto a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12109,12111,2967,274,2205,28,123,125,124,115,139,277,135,278],"class_list":["post-400327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-public-safety","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}