An entire block in the city of Baltimore, USA, collapsed on Wednesday due to strong rains which have fallen in recent days, without there being any fatal victims reported, local media said.
Twenty-Sixth Street, in a neighborhood of Charles Village, in Baltimore, was the stage of an spectacular collapse on Wednesday, April 1, causing many cars that were parked on the sidewalk to sink with an enormous landslide, according to the CBS.
The block's collapse caused authorities to evacuate around 19 homes and closed all of the water and gas installations, also suspending all train traffic in the area until further notice.
Kevin Harris, spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, said that city officials will meet with the residents of the affected area on Friday morning to detail the actions to follow owing to the emergency, according to The Washington Post.
Witnesses told the media that a complete block and a retaining wall gave out on Wednesday in the presence of shocked neighbors, who watched how the earth devoured a lamp post and over half a dozen vehicles, without anyone being injured.
Before the neighbors of 26th Street in Charles Village could return to their homes, workers of the Baltimore Department of Transportation must carry out a series of tests with sonar to confirmed the integrity of the land at the location of the landslide.
According to The Washington Post, William M. Johnson, director of the Department of Transportation, assured that the street would not reopen until these evaluations end, which are planned to begin on Saturday.
Many witnesses caught the spectacular moment in which the road on 26th Street begins to collapse on video, and the cars that are parked suddenly are engulfed, in what authorities considered are a result of strong rains registered since last weekend.
Video via NBC
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