The Algo Centre Mall Collapse | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 23rd of June, 2012, in the city of Elliot Lake in Ontario, Canada, a segment of the rooftop parking deck at the Algo Centre Mall collapsed..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - About the Algo Centre Mall
02:09 - The Roof Collapse
04:30 - The Aftermath
07:18 - Elliot Lake Today
09:15 - About This Collaboration

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

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[Bubblebeets]

The mall top parking lot looked unsettling before the collapse, can’t imagine parking up there. Those poor ladies.

[punkybrewstar]

How is it possible that there are all these horrific disasters that I have never heard of? I keep expecting him to run out...

[nicholaslewis]

"plans to implement a waterproof layer fell through"

Ironic.

[Mskittenlover]

Thinking of the building collapse in Florida that is currently active. There's so many unaccounted for. I feel like it will be on this channel one day. Especially because people are blaming the building structure. Like clockwork.

[corvus]

"A search-and-rescue team was on site within hours of the collapse, "

Hours? FUCK!

[Spektator]

You have to ask yourself, how many public locations like shopping malls, theatres and residential buildings are just ticking time bombs? It's absurd how many incidents this channel alone has covered.

[xtankx]

As a deaf person who needs subtitles, im not sure if the subtitles are made by the creator of the video or YouTube itself, but most channels takes days if not weeks to have subtitles in the video. You are one of the very few that actually has subtitles readily available. I appreciate you more than you know. Keep it up!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[toidIllorTAmI]

Imagine just being under tons of metal and concrete for two whole days.... That's so fucking terrifying. Poor women...

[SharpingtonTheGreat]

Search and Rescue Teams: Thank you so, so much for all of the work you do. I've always known the job is incredibly important and difficult, but this channel has given me a profound respect for the people that do this. Thank you.

Moments where a person dies after seeming to be SO CLOSE to rescue are especially heartbreaking. Having almost reached her and learning she was alive, the moment that escalator pushed them back must have been devastating. Being limited by time, their equipment, and a million factors they have no control over and still fighting with everything they have for hours and hours on end. I hope they don't feel their work was in vain when someone can't be saved. There are so many things that are impossible to change, but knowing there are people out there that will fight with their all EVERY time is incredible. The thought that, even if I were being crushed by a an entire building, a person would give me that kind of care, time and effort is honestly making me tear up a bit. You're amazing. Thank you.

[Aanzhen]

I grew up going to this mall often as a child. I have vivid childhood memories walking down the area where the rooftop collapsed. Often my family and I would even try to get our parents to park on the rooftop because it was more fun. Looking back it's absolutely horrifying how unstable this building was. Large towns and cities are very sparse in the area between two or three hours away which no doubt added to the problem of rescuing the victims. Those rescuers did their best with what they had. It's just a shame that it took the lives of two people for the government to open their eyes to both infrastructure neglect and lack of funding for emergency services.

[gingercube]

Obviously a bad situation for a number of reasons, but amazing that there were only 2 deaths - especially considering they weren't killed immediately. Those poor families, knowing their loved one was still alive in there for so long and then taken at the last moment

[theaussiebackflipboy]

The biggest contributing factor to these kinds of disasters is that they meet the "minimum legal requirement" rather than looking at the worst case scenario when at the design stage.

[FainthedCherry]

Lord that mall looks like something I'd build in Sims 3 when I was 8. I wasn't a good architect.

[Mochrie]

Wow, as an Ontarian, I never expected to see you cover a story from our neck of the woods. I'm honestly surprised I'd never heard of this collapse. In the city I live in (Sarnia, ON), back in 2000, we had our own mall roof collapse, but it wasn't due to negligence, but to a huge amount of snow that had fallen (something like 3 feet plus, if I remember, it was over 20 years ago now). Thankfully, the mall was not open for business at the time, but sadly a store worker died. But if it happened during regular business hours (and it was during Christmas season), it could have been so much worse.

[Rushmore]

The engineer "believed" that all the evident deficiencies had been rectified. If he was the inspector signing off, it was his job to know beyond question that they had been corrected. It's akin to an auditor signing off on financial statements without requiring reliable proof of their validity.

[pdnim]

Sad to see people getting hurt from the mall's negligence when it could have been prevented. It's was practically begging for an accident to happen from the start. 😔

[CityGirlCountry]

A friend’s mother, Dolores Perizzolo, died in the Algo Centre collapse. My belated condolences to Cindy Allan, her daughter.

[amberfaux]

No wonder why I'm not sleepy yet! I haven't watched my weekly anti-bedtime bedtime story.

[breeraeboracheff]

I remember this! I live not too far from Elliot Lake, and I have tons of friends there. The collapse was an absolute disaster :(

Being in rural Northern Ontario, there isn’t as many rescue resources. Most specialized equipment has to be sent from either Toronto or another city that has it; hence why it took so long to get the arm.

[Ammanthiel]

I’ve lived in Ontario my entire life and I’d never heard of this. I can’t imagine the horror of spending the last moments of your life trapped like that…. Love your videos. ❤️