Woman rescued uninjured 24 hours after Iowa building’s partial collapse

After a 52-year-old woman was pulled unscathed Monday evening from a partially collapsed Davenport, Iowa, apartment building, the city’s mayor said a previously announced plan to quickly tear down the structure was “under evaluation.”

Lisa Brooks was rescued after more than 24 hours apparently hiding under a couch on an upper floor of the six-story structure, authorities and family members said.

Relatives said she heard the destruction, felt the building’s partial collapse Sunday and responded with fight-or-flight instincts: She dived under the furniture and stayed put.

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