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Roof collapses on Dundas building

August 06, 2008
Spectator staff

The roof of a two-storey building housing a business and a residential unit collapsed on King Street East in Dundas today, but no one was hurt.

Burlington Roofing was putting a new roof on the building when it collapsed at 2:40 p.m., said Hamilton police Staff Sergeant Bob Watts.

Three roofers were working on top of the structure at the time.

“You could hear everything cracking,” said Al Robson, who fell six feet into the roof’s interior along with one other worker.

Watts said the collapse pulled siding off the building’s face on the upper level and exposed three rooms in the apartment used as a residence by the owner of the business below, Sure Print and Copy Centres.

King Street East was closed between Main Street and York Road.

City building inspectors are on site to determine whether to repair the building or order it pulled down.

Watts said the wood frame of the structure was clearly rotting.