1 Dead, 2 Hurt In Demolition Of Old San Francisco power plant

Today at 1200hrs firefighters were called to the old PG&E power plant @ 1000 Evans in the Bayview-Hunters point district after word that three men were trapped under a giant boiler. Two men were pulled from the wreckage and were rushed to SF General hospital. One man who suffered from life threatening injuries and the other with crushed legs.

The men have been working Iconco/LVI Demolition Services is the contractor for the demolition.
Workers were preparing to pull the boiler down with cables when it suddenly collapsed. Witnesses said they heard a loud metallic groan as the top of the structure of crisscrossing metal beams pancaked onto a middle floor - and then, with a loud boom, the upper floors keeled over and trapped the men in a pile of crumpled beams and debris.
PG&E spokesman David Eisenhauer said that he is not sure who owns the building, but said work on the property is conducted by hired contractors as well as PG&E workers.

The power plant - long a sore subject for local residents, who complained of noise and air pollution - operated for 76 years before shutting in May 2006.