Bricks Fall From Apartment Building, Man Avoids Injury

CHICAGO, IL - Several bricks fell from an apartment building in the city's Brainerd neighborhood Thursday morning as a resident was walking out the front door.

Another resident of the building located at 9230 S. Bishop Ave. around 9:30 a.m. said that the man who walked out at the same time the bricks fell was not injured, with a mountain of bricks that fell right in front of the front door still there at the time.

"He was very lucky," the resident said.

Damage at the scene less than an hour after the incident shows that the bricks fell from the second story area on the north side of the building. Scroll through the images at the top of the article for more scenes from the partial collapse.

Two Chicago police cars were at the scene, but both the resident and a police officer said building maintenance crews had still not shown up yet.

Crews on scene of 9230 S. Bishop. It's not a building collapse. Some of the bricks haven fallen but the building is not collapsed. #Chicago
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