apartment building

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Videos shared by Ukrainian emergency services on Telegram showed rescue workers and civilians carrying a woman out of an apartment building on a stretcher, her body covered in dust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

A woman wrote to the caretaker of a collapsed apartment building in Caraballeda, one of the worst-hit areas, about 40 kilometers from Caracas, to say she was still alive, volunteer rescuer Daniel Pino told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

Blanca Vanburian, who was doing a variation of Tai Chi on the lawn outside her apartment building, had several good questions, including one about whether the city could be trusted to maintain a new park.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026

“Being responsible for a house—especially for me, who grew up in an apartment building that had a maintenance person—you don’t realize how overwhelming it really is,” she shared.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The boat whirled away from the apartment building, away from the stretching, yelling Marcus and Derek, and in seconds they and all the others had disappeared in the dark, pounding rain.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz