1 dead, 6 injured after storm topples crane into Old East Dallas apartments – Dallas News

Yesenia Bosquez’s family had moved into their top-floor apartment just two weeks before the crane came crashing through Sunday. She returned from a shopping trip to find her apartment, where she’d left her husband, Jay, to recover from a shoulder injury, crushed by the twisted metal.

It took about 30 minutes for authorities to tell her that her husband had been rescued alive and had been holding their dog while medics worked on his injuries. 

“It felt like a year,” Bosquez said. An hour later, she still didn’t know which hospital he was taken to.

Abbey Kearney and her husband, Shawn, were in their third-floor apartment when the sky quickly went dark. She said they went out on their patio, which overlooks the pool, and saw umbrellas hurtling through the air.

The Kearneys watched from their apartment as the crane fell, crushing units directly across from their patio.

“It was just like a knife through butter,” Kearney said. “I’m still just shaking.”

She said she was evacuated from her apartment, which was unscathed. Kearney and her husband aren’t sure when they’ll be able to get back inside to retrieve their two cats or get their cars out of the parking garage.

In a photo Kearney took from the third floor of the parking garage, cars are scattered among the rubble. Some were flipped upside down, and others were nearly vertical.