MO Firefighter Injured in Floor Collapse

    Oct. 24, 2018
    A St. Louis firefighter was treated at a hospital and released after being injured in a floor collapse during a fire at an abandoned building.

    By Rachel Rice

    Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    St. Louis Fire Department
    Smoke pours from an abandoned building in St. Louis where a firefighter was injured in a floor collapse during a fire on Tuesday. Oct. 23, 2018.
    Smoke pours from an abandoned building in St. Louis where a firefighter was injured in a floor collapse during a fire on Tuesday. Oct. 23, 2018.

    Oct. 23 -- ST. LOUIS -- A firefighter was injured when the floor collapsed while St. Louis firefighters were responding to a building fire in the 5000 block of Minerva Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

    The injured firefighter has been released from the hospital but will not return to work for the rest of the evening, fire officials said.

    Firefighters were on the second and top floors of an abandoned three-story building when the floor collapsed. Firefighters evacuated the building following the collapse. No other people were found inside the building, officials said.

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