Local officials are working with “the whole purpose of trying to find people and trying to get them out” after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed Sunday in Davenport, Iowa.

Mayor Mike Matson and city officials updated residents at a press conference Sunday night, hours after the building — known as The Davenport — collapsed in the afternoon.

While the cause of the collapse remains unclear, crews were dispatched to the scene at 4:55 p.m. local time after part of the back of the building was detached from the rest.

Crews rescued seven people initially and helped evacuate over a dozen people, Carlsten said, and they’ve since added other agencies to assist in the rescue for more “expertise” and “manpower.”

According toCNN, Carlsten revealed another person was rescued from the building overnight. “The building is structurally unsound, is posing a risk to responders,” he added at another news conference Monday.

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Emergency crews work the scene of a partial apartment building collapse Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

“Some of our concerns at this time are still the structural stability of the building and trying to locate unaccounted for individuals,” Carlsten shared Sunday.

“Crews will continue to work through the night. In fact, crews have just started to enter the building again for the secondary search, and also start with the rescue of the debris pile that we have at the bottom of the building. We will continue to do that until this operation is completed.”

Apartment collapse in Iowa.Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP

Emergency crews work the scene of a partial building collapse on the 300 block of Main Street, Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

The owner of the building had permits to make “exterior wall repairs,” Richard Oswald — the city’s neighborhood services director — said at the press conference Sunday.

Images from the scene show one part of the building completely open, with the insides of closets and other areas of units totally visible, as water dripped down from the top of the structure.

The “glows” of rescuers' flashlights could be seen from outside of the building as they went room-to-room looking for people and animals stuck inside,WQADreported.

Officials update to media, residents and onlookers after a partial building collapse on the 300 block of Main Street, Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

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Residents have been sharing their concerns and explaining what they saw to local networks. Building cleaner Tadd Machovec recalled hearing “a lot of screams and a lot of cries” when part of the building went down.

“That did not last,” he told WQAD. “2 or 3 minutes and then the whole area was silent. I’m hoping and praying that the screams that I heard when the building came down were not people inside of it.”

Scene of an apartment collapse in Iowa.Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP

Emergency crews work the scene of a partial building collapse on the 300 block of Main Street, Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

Resident Victoria McClain recalled seeing dust and debris, adding, “I hope they bring my dog out and that she’ll come back out to me. She’s my world. She’s all I got.”

Andrew Sommer, a former tenant, toldKWQC: “I live in the building just next to it and we heard just like a large crash and then shortly after we went outside and saw the whole section of the building gone.”

source: people.com