A crane collapsed into a St. Petersburg, Florida, office building that is the home of the Tampa Bay Times and other businesses on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, as Hurricane Milton made landfall in the state.
Per a news release from the City of St. Petersburg, there were no reported injuries from the incident that occurred at the 400 Central building construction site. The city also said that the area will be “blockaded off until further notice.”
In its story about the incident, the Tampa Bay Times said that no one was working inside the newsroom at the time of the collapse amid Milton’s heavy winds.
In a statement shared with PEOPLE on Oct. 10, Conan Gallaty, the chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Company, the newspaper’s parent company, wrote: “The building that houses the Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg headquarters sustained damage during Hurricane Milton. We are working with the building owners to get a sense of the …