Stephen Spencer Davis and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
As emergency crews searched for survivors buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed mall last summer, both the rescue teams and government staffers struggled to rein in a muddled message in the glare of media coverage and a distraught community.
Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
Thursday, June 28, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ADAM RADWANSKI AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
With two bodies pulled from the wreckage of Elliot Lake’s Algo Mall, Dalton McGuinty’s government is set to begin a grim review of whether Ontario’s own emergency-response processes undermined the ultimately fruitless rescue mission.
A source in the Premier’s Office confirmed on Wednesday that the review will consider whether the specialized excavator used to dismantle the collapsed mall – four days after the crisis began – should have been brought in sooner.
Chris Young/Canadian Press
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, STEPHEN SPENCER DAVIS AND JANE SWITZER
With fading hopes of finding anyone alive in the rubble of a collapsed mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., rescuers announced they would work through the night on Tuesday using a newly-delivered mechanical arm to remove debris and search for survivors.
Chris Young/Canadian Press
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AND STEPHEN SPENCER DAVIS
TORONTO and SUDBURY — Rescuers will try “drastic” measures to reach possible survivors in a collapsed mall, acting at the urging of the community and Ontario’s Premier after search-and-rescue operations were suspended over safety fears.
Crews who just hours earlier were pulled from the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont. will have another go at the structure relying on machinery, said fire chief Paul Officer.
Officials believe there is one person dead and possibly at least one still alive in the wreckage. Reaching them could require methods that are “a little more drastic, that aren’t necessarily done in a rescue operation – or even a recovery operation,” Chief Officer told a news conference Monday evening. “And we still have to come up with that plan.”
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