Four people died and three others were injured after a crane collapsed in Seattle's busy South Lake Union neighborhood on Saturday.
The incident at Fairview Ave N and involved a crane that fell into traffic. 5 cars were crushed. There are a total of 4 fatalities, and 3 injured patients that have been transferred to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/HM3PBZ5Udt
— Seattle Fire Dept. (@SeattleFire) April 27, 2019
When emergency workers arrived at the scene, there were four people dead — two crane operators and two people in separate vehicles, according to Seattle Fire Department Chief Harold Scoggins, who held a press briefing Saturday afternoon.
VIDEO: Chief Harold Scoggins of Seattle Fire just finished briefing reporters at the scene of this afternoon's deadly crane collapse @Crosscut pic.twitter.com/RtGfeOxkGS
— Victor Hernandez (@ToTheVictor) April 28, 2019
The crane appears to be part of a new Google building under construction at Fairview Avenue North and Mercer Street, just nearby Amazon's headquarters. The Google Cloud logo is visible on the building, which was damaged from the collapse. We've reached out to Google and will update this story when we hear back.
HAPPENING NOW: on the scene of a crane collapse at Fairview & Mercer in #Seattle. The crane fell off a Google building under construction and onto at least 4 cars bellow. @KIRO7Seattle for the latest. pic.twitter.com/qIv3l8KMTj
— Tyler Unwin (@TylerUnwin) April 27, 2019
Breaking News: A crane collapsed, crushing several cars on Mercer Street in South Lake Union https://t.co/JkRgWA65ZA
Caught this clip of @LinziKIRO7 LIVE on @KIRO7Seattle 📲 https://t.co/HJBK4ArBcm pic.twitter.com/hf89om2Sq3
— Michael Spears (@MichaelKIRO7) April 27, 2019
The scene on Mercer and Fairview at the moment pic.twitter.com/SiZopzk2rC
— Frank Kuin (@frankkuin) April 28, 2019
This is crazy #crane #seattle #slu pic.twitter.com/p8KVm5mgVZ
— bert_24 (@aborja24) April 28, 2019
Google planned to begin moving into its new South Lake Union campus this summer. The campus, first announced in 2016 and developed by Vulcan, consists of two blocks with 607,000 square feet of office space and 149 apartments. Google also last year leased a third nearby block.
In the South Lake Union neighborhood, Google is battling for talent with homegrown giants such as Amazon, which employs more than 45,000 people at its HQ, as well as Facebook, which is rapidly growing its own footprint in Seattle.
Google first arrived in the Seattle area 15 years ago and now has roughly 3,400 employees in the region today. The new campus will significantly boost its capacity to hire more engineers in a talent-rich ecosystem that also includes nearly 120 out-of-town tech companies have also established engineering centers, in addition to Microsoft and Amazon's headquarters.
Seattle has ranked No. 1 for the most cranes in America each year since 2016. There was another crane collapse in November 2006 in nearby Bellevue that damaged buildings and killed a Microsoft lawyer.
We'll update this post as more information becomes available.
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