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Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie
Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie A woman who had been trapped for several hours was pulled from the rubble by rescuers Monday night after a building collapsed onto two others in Poughkeepsie. Rotanya Hargrove was alert and conscious when she was rescued at about 8 p.m., nearly four hours after a vacant, seven-story building collapsed onto two other buildings during a severe thunderstorm with gusty winds. Hargrove, 43, suffered non-life threatening injuries. During the collapse at around 4:15 p.m., the larger building at 19 Academy St., fell onto another building at 17 Academy St., and then onto a smaller three-story build…

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by Joe Lombardi