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Two construction cranes and the new bridge deck of the Queen Juliana Bridge in Alphen aan den Rijn Monday afternoon toppled and landed on some buildings. There would be twenty wounded. According to the NOS there is contact with a person lying under the rubble and hearing them squeal a dog in one of the buildings is still in its crate. Fire brigade, ambulances and two ambulances on site
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Firefighters try! tap of the houses subtracting. Rescue workers from Urban Search And Rescue (USAR.NL) with two rescue groups and five dogs en route to Alphen aan den Rijn. That has the team reported Monday on Twitter. “Our job will be to see if there are people in the collapsed houses. We also have equipment to prop so that firefighters can safely house to go inside,” said one of the spokesmen of USAR.
Renovation
The two fallen cranes were on a pontoon. In their hoists hung the moving part of the Juliana Bridge that underwent a thorough renovation. On images taken by bystanders, one can see how the bridge deck comes off, then the cranes topple over and fall on buildings along the way. People jumping in panic from the barge and onto the background can be heard loud screams.
‘Giant crane
An eyewitness reports to The Telegraph that there are several people in placing the bridge portion came down, out of interest. ,, It was a gigantic crane that stood on a platform in the water. He was not on solid ground. I sat across the street when I heard a loud bang. When I was walking there I saw that the width is the size of three ruined houses. I hope no one was inside. ”
Ravage
The front of the damaged homes adjacent to the Hooftstraat. There is havoc (see pictures YouTube) also large. A witness reports to De Telegraaf that on both the front and back of the street is enormous damage. “The street is filled with dust. At least two, three houses were completely razed to the ground. I myself was close to the boat when it happened, but I smoke soon became a strong oil smell. The closer I got, the better me it became clear what was going on, “said Freek Bottema, who also lives on the affected street. “There are rumors that there is a fatality, but no one can confirm.”
Many problems
The Queen Juliana bridge across the Oude Rijn dates back to 1955. In recent years, were there are numerous problems with the building. In 2010, a maintenance company warned that the steel structure of the bridge was bad. A year later grabbed the municipality when it was discovered that the connection to collapse. In June 2013, there were problems again, this time with the braking system of the movable bridge part and in January last year was due to a malfunction, the bridge no longer down.
The municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn asking people not urgent to go to the crash site. The emergency services should be able to do their job, according to the municipality. The Ikbenveilig.nl site is operational, the Red Cross has said. People looking for someone or want to indicate that they are safe, can put it on the website.
Victims
The University Hospital LUMC in Leiden teams stand ready in the emergency department to accommodate victims of the bridge accident in Alphen aan den Rijn. A spokeswoman for the hospital said that five teams consisting of an anesthesiologist, a surgeon and a nurse ready. Just after 18:00 pm there were no casualties have been brought from Alphen.
The Dutch Safety Board is doing exploratory investigation into the circumstances of the drama.
Press Conference
the deputy mayors of Alphen aan den Rijn, Monday night at the crash site. Mayor Liesbeth Spies is on holiday. Or councilor Gerard van As if his colleague Kees van Velzen spot is going to draw abreast of the situation.
According to a spokeswoman for the municipality, there are plans for a news conference Monday. A date has not yet decided
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Got this video sent to the toppling #kraan in #Alphen. Terrible. Strength there! pic.twitter.com/j6rdKrjVK5
- Julian Lambermon (JLambermon) August 3, 2015
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– Edwin Cornet (edwincornet) August 3, 2015
Crane collapses onto houses in Alphen, The Netherlands. http://t.co/Uh1sIxxMgC pic.twitter.com/Vu8TFevcmZ
- Koen (Koennz) August 3, 2015
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Residential 50 meters away, but I’m on vacation in France. Last year, a half hour before departure MH17 and now this. We are in shock. We hope that victims lack or bad and no deaths! And when I saw it live, I would also think krijzen yell or scold.
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I wish everyone strength. And let the emergency services do their work undisturbed. And let’s not draw any conclusions. That will come later. But first all victims to get the help they need.
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It all but kunnen.Zo’n heavy crane with this weight on n’gammel pontoon that asking for trouble. That can still be seen coming n’kind that something is about hellen.Waarom not first cleared the area? All in all it there n’stel ammateurtjs to work. Hopefully there are no deaths in cases.
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Just call Apeldoorn …
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Dom cathedral, on rotten poles, you can not build a house on a plato, no solid ground, you can not faucets post or anchor , children’s work, let us hope that there are no deaths, all strength in Alphen aan de Rijn.
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This is not like working there wordt.Twee mobile cranes on two pontoons with so colossus in the tackles asking for trouble .Want every sane person knows if you so works on a pontoon and a faucet turn on the pontoon af.Dat another pontoon / crane also tilted due gewicht.De the contractor who has worked so here goes beyond its powers.
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Why in a radius of 100 meters of no safety measures taken in advance? Bijv.mensen from their homes let go! There was still a risk factor present!
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You may already mentioned, but why the two cranes on the bridge instead of a pontoon.
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Yet a case of bad planning. Too fast, too rushed to finish the job with this result!
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There are already a lot of “experts” who believe the pontoon construction is not wise … How do these people think that the old bridge deck is removed? Exactly the same way! So quietly wait for the investigation report, for the same money appears that there was a failure of one of the cranes or that an operating error has been made.
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Strength for victims! Just 1st response heard from expert who has been doing for 40 years such studies. Landlord and tenant pontoon cranes have both very good reputation. For them, just routine job. He is amazed by the images of the drama, the execution. The two cranes seem to work at all together. The performance comes across as amateurish. It seems that hired a third party for execution.
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Why such a show with such high labile taps? A new bridge deck had also just struts can be put on a barge, sailed to the right position and then lowered his foundation. Possibly with cranes on fixed wal.k Whether by road transport and with cranes on land in the right place hoisted. The lifting company wanted to make a spectacular job of, complete with floating cameras in drones. Well, show what they got.
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Lots of strength for the victims, social workers and laborers but this was asking for trouble. Something you still can not do on a floating pontoon? For this kind of work so you rent one or two bucks in.
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Lots of strength for everyone involved. That the cause quickly but may be found in the ultimate teaching!
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Have the videos a few times bekeken..en it immediately struck me that the ground for the cranes was unstable, but also that the large surface of the brug..bij the slightest gust .. the taps off balance could bring .. Strange that there is not thought of. An organization error seems. That there were no deaths seems a wonder..en my sympathy for the victims of course. In such a spectacle hear anyway op’veilige ‘distance to stand. Who controll such a thing?
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I wish everyone who has anything to do with this accident, quite a lot of strength !!!! And I really hope that all aid workers to do their work without any problems.
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What can be learned from this? Houses evacuate the immediate area and drop the section of road in such major operations.
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Here is a gigantic calculation error made in terms of stability !!!