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Crews arrived on scene at around 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, and Boone said they went straight to work. He said that the body of the man was located shortly after personnel arrived, but they needed a plan to extricate him.
Working alongside Kelowna Fire and Rescue, crews were able to recover the body at around midnight Wednesday.
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ORIGINAL (7:45 a.m.):
A specialized team of first responders from Vancouver has arrived in Kelowna, B.C., to begin the work of trying to recover the body of a missing man under the rubble of a building next to a construction site where a crane collapsed, killing four other people.
Assistant chief David Boone of Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services said firefighters, paramedics, police and an engineer are part of the heavy urban rescue team, one of six such teams in Canada.
Boone, who is leading the team, said work is expected to begin Wednesday after an assessment of the site where RCMP said a crane toppled Monday from above a 25-storey residential tower under construction and crashed into a neighbouring building.
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The missing man, who is presumed dead, was working in the building adjacent to the construction site and police were hoping to recover his body Tuesday, RCMP Insp. Adam MacIntosh told a news conference.
Four workers on the jobsite, including the crane operator,, were killed, while another man who was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries has since been released, he said.
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Until then, a local emergency order prevents anyone from accessing the area.
The building next door housed a consulting business, MacIntosh said.
He would not speculate about the cause of the collapse but said workers were getting ready to take the crane down or were in the process of dismantling it.
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The RCMP are investigating to ensure the collapse was not criminal and a WorkSafeBC investigation will also determine what occurred, he said.
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The website for Stemmer Construction, based in Salmon Arm, B.C., lists the tower in Kelowna as one of its current projects.
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A candlelight vigil has been planned for Friday at 9 p.m. near the site of the crane collapse. The aim is to gather as close to the site as possible, organizers say, but the exact location had yet to be determined.
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The Canadian Press
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