Philadelphia parking garage collapse leaves 1 dead, 2 missing

A hunt and rescue cognition is underway successful Philadelphia connected Thursday pursuing a partial parking store illness that near astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 2 missing, according to the city’s mayor. 

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said the incidental unfolded Wednesday day arsenic the parking store was nether operation adjacent 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue successful South Philadelphia. 

"Our archetypal responders moved immediately, and hunt and rescue operations are inactive underway. One beingness has been lost, and 2 individuals remain unaccounted for," Parker wrote connected X precocious Wednesday. "We are not giving up, and we volition not remainder until everyone is accounted for." 

"This remains an progressive hunt and rescue scene. The contiguous area, including the buying plaza and surrounding stores, is closed, and determination is nary timeline yet for reopening," she added.

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A parking store successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial illness connected Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (WTXF)

Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson said 2 different radical were rescued astatine the tract and treated astatine a adjacent hospital, according to FOX 29 Philadelphia. He reportedly added that crews request to stabilize the parking store earlier rescue efforts tin continue. 

The garage was nether operation for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and officials said each 7 levels of its step strategy were impacted by the collapse, FOX 29 reported. 

The presumption cited Parker arsenic saying that 8 permits were decently issued and each inspections were up to date, and that the illness happened erstwhile a extortion conception being installed by a subcontractor failed.

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The store was nether operation for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a study said. (WTXF)

 "Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is alert of a superior operation incidental astatine our parking store operation tract connected 3000 Grays Ferry Avenue successful Philadelphia," the enactment told FOX 29. "We are prioritizing the information of the operation workers astatine this clip and moving intimately with the City of Philadelphia and our operation partners. We volition stock further accusation arsenic it becomes available." 

The identities of the deceased and missing were not instantly released.

"All of our prayers are with the household of the idiosyncratic who has passed and the families of those we are inactive searching for tonight. I humbly inquire each Philadelphians to articulation maine successful supplication for them," Parker said connected X. 

Cracks are seen connected the broadside of a parking store successful Philadelphia connected Thursday, April 9, 2026, pursuing a partial illness the time before. (WTXF)

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"Lori and I are praying for those injured successful the parking store that partially collapsed successful Grays Ferry today, for the household of the idiosyncratic who was tragically killed, and for the families who proceed to hold portion archetypal responders hunt for their loved ones," added Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who said his medication is successful interaction with officials connected the crushed successful Philadelphia.