Demolition crews plan to tear down crumbling French Quarter building

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - Emergency demolition crews were back in the French Quarter trying to safely tear down the remains of a fallen building. The historic structure began to crumble without warning Tuesday.

WGNO News Reporter Darian Trotter has the latest on the clean-up.

Its really sad that it fell a 200-year-old building just collapsed, neighbor Brant Bargfeldt said.

Since the collapse that began Tuesday emergency demolition crews have been trying to figure out how best to remove whats left of the historic residential building located in the 800 block of Royal Street in the French Quarter.

Its going to take a lot just to bring that down and not damage anything else.

Police barricades were put in place Thursday to keep on lookers at a safe distance. Landon Gates was one of them.

I think that its kind of a shame that they left the building get to that condition but if its a dangerous, youve got to take it down, Gates said.

This is cell phone video taken during Wednesdays collapse that forced 8 area businesses to close temporarily; and residents of at least 5 homes have been displaced.

Im just shocked how I can collapse right in the middle of the two, tourist Francesca Ramsey said.

At least one of the adjacent buildings shares a wall with the crumbling structure.

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