Urban search and rescue in Crested Butte, Colorado, State Bank following an explosion/collapse.

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TextPublication details: Emmitsburg, Md. : United States Fire Administration, 1992Description: 18 p. : illDDC classification:

363.34809788 20

Subject: On Tuesday, March 6, 1990, at approximately 8.55 am there was an explosion and subsequent collapse of the Crested Butte State Bank (CBSB), 405 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, Colorado, which killed three bank employees and injured fourteen other people. The magnitude of the explosion levelled most of the two-storey brick structure, trapping some of the victims in void spaces throughout the rubble. The force of the blast blew the doors from the bank vault and embedded a metal window frame from the bank into the wall of a wooden building 40 to 50 feet away. A heavy winter snow storm complicated rescue operations and medical transportation of the injured

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F363.34809788 URB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009592404

On Tuesday, March 6, 1990, at approximately 8.55 am there was an explosion and subsequent collapse of the Crested Butte State Bank (CBSB), 405 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, Colorado, which killed three bank employees and injured fourteen other people. The magnitude of the explosion levelled most of the two-storey brick structure, trapping some of the victims in void spaces throughout the rubble. The force of the blast blew the doors from the bank vault and embedded a metal window frame from the bank into the wall of a wooden building 40 to 50 feet away. A heavy winter snow storm complicated rescue operations and medical transportation of the injured

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