SCRANTON -- Five days after a warehouse was destroyed in a fire in Scranton, demolition work has now begun on what remained of the building.
Demolition crews began tearing down the remains of the Sandone Tire Warehouse Monday afternoon after it was gutted by a massive blaze last week. The now partially collapsed tire warehouse along Wyoming Avenue in Scranton is coming down.
"I mean, just looking at it is scary to imagine just being in the vicinity of it,” said Mark Dennebaum, who owns a production company, TwentyFiveEight Studios, next door to Sandone.
He shot some drone video as an excavator began bringing bricks crumbling down.
“I don't envy anybody that has to do this. It's hard work and it's scary work,” said Dennebaum. “I was just on the roof and I was scared just watching it.”
As crews continued to work slowly and carefully through the afternoon, others came out to watch as well.
Don Fisch works at Friedman Electric next door.
“Devastating, you don't realize what a fire can do to a company or people, think of the days of 9/11 when you look at building like that,” said Fisch.
Gary Broehl says the fact the building is still standing at all shows how well it was built all those years ago.
“You can see all the stuff they put in there, all the reinforcements, the wires there, the cables, it was built very strong,” said Broehl.
Dennebaum says crews have a tough job ahead and he credits their hard work so far.
“These guys have been here since Wednesday and they haven't left and they're not giving up and the fire crews are still here and the demolition companies are doing what's doing,” said Dennebaum.
Crews stopped demolition work just after 6 p.m. Monday and are expected to resume work Tuesday.
The section of Wyoming Avenue around Sandone remains closed to the public.
