Cars crushed after exterior wall collapses in Cobbs Creek

Thursday, November 28, 2019
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- At least three vehicles were damaged after an exterior wall came crashing down in the Cobbs Creek section of Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon.

It happened around 12:45 p.m. on the 6000 block of Osage Avenue.
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Video shows cars crushed from falling bricks.

"Startled, like this was unbelievable. Thanksgiving Day," said Veronica Brinkley

Her car was among the three buried in the rubble.

"It sounded like a bomb hit this block and I just thought that I was dead," she added.
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Police closed the section of the road to traffic. Crews from the city's Department of Licenses and Inspection were also spotted at the scene.



"I just walked into the house, I think I was in the house maybe 3, 4, minutes," said resident Anthony Randall. "Boom! The whole wall, building everything just fell down, smoke everything I turned around kinda scared cause it rocked a little bit," he described.

No injuries have been reported.

There is no word at this time what caused the collapse.
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