VIDEO: An Albany family has been temporarily displaced after the foundation of their home partially collapsed on Sunday, the Albany Fire Department said. The incident occurred on the 200 block of Delaware Avenue.
According to the Albany Fire Department, the damage occurred in a 16-foot section of the home’s foundation wall. Officials responded to the incident at about 2 p.m. and there were no injuries reported.
Three people lived in the home, the fire department said — two people on the first floor, including the owner, and one person on the second floor. The three may stay with family until further notice, Fire Battalion Chief Geo Henderson told NEWS10’s Vanessa Blasi on Sunday.
Though the damage is “significant,” Henderson said, the house is likely not a total loss. However, the department was unsure of the repair timeline.
“Being the holiday weekend, that certainly complicates things a little bit as far as getting the folks in here to evaluate it,” Henderson told NEWS10. “Then however long it takes to determine, by the city engineer, as far as what steps need to be done — that’s going to determine what level of remediation is going to have to happen.”
In addition to the fire department, a structural engineer was reportedly sent to investigate the scene, as well as National Grid.
