Iowa apartment building collapses; no deaths reported

Emergency crews work the scene of a partial apartment building collapse on Sunday in Davenport, Iowa. (Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times, distributed by the Associated Press)

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Firefighters and other first responders are being credited with saving lives — at great risk to their own safety — after a six-story apartment building in Iowa partially collapsed, authorities said Monday.

There were no confirmed fatalities and no one was known to be trapped the morning after a section of brick building in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport crashed to the ground. Mayor Mike Matson said members of the Davenport Fire Department and others went “literally into an unsafe building” trying to rescue residents.