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Woman Has Leg Amputated To Free Her From Collapsed Iowa Building

Children draw on the ground with chalk at the scene where an apartment building partially collapsed on Sunday afternoon, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. Five residents of the six-story apartment building remained unaccounted for and authorities feared at least two of them might be stuck inside rubble that was too dangerous to search. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
  • An Iowa woman who found herself pinned by a pile of rubble for hours after a century-old apartment building suddenly collapsed Sunday was forced to have her leg amputated so that she could be rescued, her wife has revealed.
  • Quanishia and Lexus Berry were sitting in their fourth-floor apartment in Davenport, Iowa, with their two cats Sunday evening when they spotted a crack above their bathroom doorway, Quad-City Times reported.
  • Sensing that something was wrong, the couple grabbed their pets and ran for the front door, but they were too late.
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