Lambton Mall Roof Collapse

Woolco was its department store.

Lambton mall roof collapse.

December 14 2000 roof collapse. It wasn t too bad for the time. You note that it lacked a department store when it first opened. The deadly collapse of a roof at a mall in an ontario city should be a warning to others about the dangers of built up snow according to officials.

The collapse killed 47 year old susan foster a worker who had been preparing for opening and injured one other worker. In the early morning of december 14 2000 at around 8 30 am part of the mall s roof collapsed under the weight of snow which had been collecting for several days due to neglect to clear the roof of the building near the hallmark store. Given the press coverage of the one in elliot lake that killed two people in 2012 you d think we would have heard more about the lambton mall s problem. The hallmark store remained boarded shut monday as the doors to virtually every other business in the lambton mall opened for the first time since.

A woman was killed and another employee was. The lambton mall was closed when the flat roof over a card shop caved in before doors opened police officer george linton said. One woman 47 died after being pulled from the debris an hour after the roof collapsed the canadian press reported. I didn t know about the roof collapse.