Cement truck causes minor damage to NW Calgary hospital
Posted Oct 17, 2019 2:50 pm.
Last Updated Oct 17, 2019 7:00 pm.
CALGARY (660 NEWS) — A large truck, pumping concrete into the under-construction new Calgary Cancer Centre, tipped over Thursday.
Emergency crews responded to the scene shortly after 11 a.m.
“A cement boom truck, so sort of a pump truck to lift concrete to a different area was set up on a rated piece of ground, so it was rated for the weight of the truck and it actually gave way and so the truck listed over and caused the boom to strike the second floor of the hospital and did some minor damage,” said Battalion Chief Alistair Robin with the Calgary Fire Department.
Outside the new Calgary Cancer Centre where a large truck is said to have tipped over.
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Robin explains their technical rescue team came in and removed the cement from the truck so it could be righted.
No one was injured, the new cancer centre in northwest Calgary is set to open in 2023.
