VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Southwest Portland apartment building started to collapse on Wednesday after a four-alarm fire ripped through the structure on Tuesday.
The start of the collapse comes after crews said they extinguished the last hot spot earlier in the day.
Doug Keller with Paul Davis Restoration was already at the site Wednesday afternoon, waiting for their crew to get fencing up in the area to keep folks out as part of the wall crumbled. “I was waiting next to my truck here, and all of a sudden, I heard a bang and turned my head toward the building and saw layers of brick just folding over the side hitting the sidewalk and little bricks hitting the road and bouncing,” Keller said.