Building collapse

Seven injured, two hospitalized after building collapse in central area of Sydney, Australia

Footage from Australian television network Seven showed the collapsed wall of a large building that the channel said was located near a construction site.

|ByREUTERS
ABC said that three Fire and Rescue teams were at the scene.
Police and emergency personnel at the scene where a balcony collapsed onto a bakery, leaving one person dead and several others injured, in Jerusalem, July 20, 2026.

Deadly Jerusalem balcony collapse victim named as Barry Levitt

A second-floor balcony in the three-story building collapsed onto a ground-floor restaurant on Monday, causing significant damage, the Fire and Rescue Authority reported.

|ByAARON GLICK, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
United Hatzalah volunteers respond to a partial building collapse on Jerusalem's KKL Street, July 20, 2026.

One person killed, four injured due to partial building collapse in Jerusalem

"We arrived at the scene in large numbers and noticed a number of frightened, injured people coming towards us, and a man trapped among all the rubble in critical condition," MDA paramedics said.

|ByAARON GLICK
The Israeli Consulate in New York.

Israel's New York Consulate to reopen on Thursday following safety issues with nearby building

Besides the consulate, other nearby buildings, including a school, were evacuated, and streets were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, with no injuries reported.

|ByIDAN KWELLER

Rescuers search around clock for survivors of Florida building collapse

Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky told reporters that rescue operations would continue throughout the night.

JUNE 26, 2021ByREUTERS
Pictures of missing people and flowers hang on a fence at the memorial for victims of a partially collapsed residential building as the emergency crews continue search and rescue operations for survivors, in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Florida, US June 25, 2021

The building collapse in Miami struck a growing, diverse Jewish community

Here’s what you should know about the Jews in and around Surfside as the city and community cope with an evolving catastrophe.

JUNE 26, 2021ByBEN SALES/JTA
Emergency crews respond to a partially collapsed residential building in the rain in Surfside, near Miami Beach Florida, U.S. June 24, 2021.

For Jewish burial societies, Miami building collapse presents a grim task

Dozens of local burial society volunteers are on standby in Surfside right now in case a body is found, Berger said, and hundreds more in New York have signed up to travel to Florida if needed.

JUNE 26, 2021BySHIRA HANAU/JTA
A bunk bed is seen in a partially collapsed building in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello

South Korea building collapses suddenly during demolition, killing 9

South Korea has been known in the past for having a bad safety record in terms of infrastructure.

JUNE 9, 2021ByREUTERS
South Korean firefighters search for passengers from a bus trapped by the debris of a collapsed building in Gwangju, South Korea, June 9, 2021.

At least five dead after ten-story building collapses in Cairo

"We heard nothing from there; we tried to get them out, to know if they are alive or dead, we have no idea," Ahmed said, standing at the site.

MARCH 27, 2021ByREUTERS
Rescue teams on Saturday continued to work among the remains of the building that collapsed in Cairo leaving at least five dead and 23 injured, March 27, 2021.

Floor of Jerusalem store collapses into parking lot below

The cause of the collapse is not yet known.

FEBRUARY 1, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israelis are seen walking along the Jaffa Street light rail tracks in Jerusalem amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, on January 14, 2021..

Crane collapses on building in Rishon Lezion - watch

MDA Spokesperson's Unit reported that there do not seem to be any injured outside the wreckage as the teams advance to scanning the area for people trapped underneath.

APRIL 22, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Emergency personnel survey the site of a building collapse in Beitar Illit on December 4th.

Two people seriously injured in a building collapse in Ashdod

The building was two stories high, and the explosion caused the ceiling of the first floor to collapse, seriously injuring the occupants of the building.

MARCH 14, 2019ByALON HACHMON
Rescue teams work to recover people from the building collapse in Ashdod