Dramatic surveillance video captured the moment a ton of bricks rained down on a quiet street in a Boston suburb when a building suddenly collapsed Sunday morning.
“We woke up this morning at 9:30, 10 o’clock, and just heard a really loud boom,” Brookline, Mass., resident Elliot Wayne told WFXT-TV News. “Just like a regular Sunday morning playing with the kids. It sounded really similar to, actually, the earthquake from a few weeks ago.”
The three-story building at 50 Vernon St., which was empty and under construction, came tumbling down around 10 a.m., police said in a Facebook post.
Miraculously, no one was injured, cops said.
“It appears the building was under construction and vacant at the time of the collapse and there are no reported injuries,” police said. “Several of the adjacent buildings were evacuated as a precaution.”
Video footage shows the bricks slam down on a snow-covered SUV and take out an iron fence across the street — with photos showing the rubble strewn across the roadway in the aftermath.
Police said an investigation into the cause of the collapse is now under way.
Brookline is part of the Boston metropolitan area and borders six of the city’s neighborhoods.
“It could’ve been anybody driving by and someone would’ve been killed,” a neighbor said.
