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"We went out in our underwear, adults cried like babies": 16 families lost their home in Holon in an instant
At 7:33 a.m. Saturday morning, an elderly couple planned to leave for the synagogue.
When they were unable to open the building door and noticed a wide crack in the wall, they realized they needed to call for help, and rescued dozens of the building's occupants on Serlin Street, who were ordered to leave immediately.
A day later they watched together the four floors collapse at once
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Sapir Levy
Sunday, 12 September 2021, 23:01 Updated: 23:02
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In the video: Documentation of the collapse of the building in Holon (Photo: Sapir Levy, documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Creators Law)
The occupants of the building that collapsed on Serlin Street in Holon are trying to digest the sudden disaster.
Sixteen families woke up on Saturday morning knocking on the door of their house announcing immediate evacuation, without warning, quickly packed the items they had collected for years, and went out into the street in pajamas and underwear without knowing if they would return.
Today (Sunday) already watched the five-story building completely collapse.
"At seven in the morning on Saturday, I woke up and heard the sounds of a walkie-talkie," said Chaya Chen Arad, who has lived in the building for 15 years with her family.
"I imagined it was police or firefighters, that someone got stuck in an elevator. I wanted to help and asked what happened, and I was told to evacuate the apartment quickly because the building was about to collapse. Of course I was in a total market. I went home and screamed like crazy. I have two small children, a soldier. "Everyone slept. We got out of bed with pajamas or underwear. They started evacuating the tenants, knocking on the doors."
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A day after the tenants were evacuated for fear of collapsing: A building collapsed in Holon
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"I screamed like crazy."
The ruins of the building in Holon (Photo: Maariv, Avshalom Sasson)
The tenant said the entire building was saved thanks to an elderly couple who lived on the first floor.
Yesterday, in the early hours of the morning, they intended to go out to pray in a nearby synagogue, but were unable to open the front door of the building.
When they noticed a ten-inch crack on the side of the door, they realized they had to call the fire department.
The sudden announcement provoked severe feelings among the tenants.
"There are elderly people here, Holocaust survivors, her breastfeeding mother, an elderly couple who lived here the building site 55 years ago and cried like babies," Chen Arad described.
"Grandpa, grandma, mothers, fathers crying for children. It was a heartbreaking spectacle. We did not know what to do, we were helpless until things became clear, we did not know where we were going to sleep. Social workers came from the municipality and took details from us. They offered us - adults, babies "Children - to stay at the Neot Shoshanim community center, which is delusional."
The collapse of the building - step by step
Saturday, 07:33
: Tenants in the building reported to Hotline 102 that they hear noises from the building walls and are unable to open the building door. Many forces jumped to the scene and began to scan the building
08:01
: The fire brigade commander decided to evacuate all the building's occupants immediately due to many cracks found in the walls
08:28
: The occupants' evacuation was completed after the forces scanned the building and helped the elderly evacuate
08:45
: Engineer The city and the police determined after a joint assessment that there is an immediate danger of the building collapsing
09:05
: An engineer from the Home Front Command was called to the scene for fear of endangering the lives of tenants in nearby buildings
10:00
: A Home Front engineer and a municipal engineer Nearby
today, 3pm
: The building on Serlin Street collapsed completely with no outside intervention
Firefighters and police are now working to evacuate the collapsed building, conducting scans at the scene and examining whether there is a similar danger in nearby buildings.
After the collapse, the adjacent street was blocked and traffic disruptions were recorded in the area.
Collect the belongings and leave without knowing if they will return.
The ruins of the building in Holon (Photo: Maariv, Avshalom Sasson)
The municipality stated that "as soon as the notice was received, an engineer on behalf of the municipality was escorted to the scene accompanied by a team from the municipal unit for dangerous buildings. Until yesterday, no application was made to the municipality regarding the residential building in question. For information about him or to issue a building permit at this address.
"" Every Saturday, social workers from the welfare services in the Holon municipality treated the tenants, provided them with food and drink, and with the approval of the police, they entered with most tenants to quickly remove essential items from their apartments.
"The municipality has opened a temporary accommodation facility in one of the community centers equipped with beds, mattresses and other equipment to provide them with an initial solution until they arrange for housing arrangements and also allowed them to shower in the urban breeze, but residents preferred to vacate their relatives' homes."
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