Accident In Atlantic City

Four people were killed and 21 others injured when the top five stories of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., collapsed on Oct. 30, 2003.

An aerial view of the collapsed section of the casino parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003. The collapse sent concrete slabs and metal beams crashing down as workers ran for cover.

A search and rescue team inspects the damage to the parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003. Authorities didn't send rescue crews in right away to search for people trapped inside because they were worried about the building's stability.

A search and rescue team worker exits a section of the parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003. Robert Levy, the city's director of emergency management, said search cameras and dogs had been sent into the rubble to try to locate missing workers, and trucks carrying lumber were being brought in to try to shore up the building.

A construction worker who didn't want to be identified talks about the parking garage he was working on when it partially collapsed, Oct. 30, 2003. About 300 to 400 workers were at the site when the garage floors collapsed.

Construction worker T.J. Anthony looks up at the collapsed parking garage he'd been working on, Oct. 30, 2003.

Inspectors survey the damage to the parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003. The parking garage supports one side of an 18-story hotel tower also under construction as part of an expansion project for the Tropicana Casino and Resort.

Construction workers hang a sheet around an ambulance at the accident scene, Oct. 30, 2003. Two workers were found dead in the debris several hours after the collapse, and another was recovered the next morning. A fourth worker died at a hospital, and 21 others were injured.

Rescue workers remove the body of a construction worker killed in the parking garage collapse, Oct. 30, 2003.

A construction worker takes off his hard hat as rescue workers remove the body of a victim from the accident site, Oct. 30, 2003.

Construction and rescue workers pray for a deceased construction worker whose body had just been removed from the parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003.

Members of a search and recovery team look in the rubble of the collapsed parking garage, Oct. 30, 2003.

Emergency and recovery workers carry the body of a fourth construction worker to an ambulance, Oct. 31, 2003, after finding his body in a crushed third-floor stairwell of the parking garage.

The Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., is shown in this aerial photo, Oct. 30, 2003.