{"id":391377,"date":"2025-11-20T03:49:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:49:36","slug":"partial-roof-collapse-reported-at-desert-sky-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391377\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial roof collapse reported at Desert Sky Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A partial roof collapsed at Desert Sky Mall on Wednesday evening, according to Phoenix Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The west Phoenix mall, where the partial &#8220;drop ceiling&#8221; collapse was reported, was located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+75th+Ave+%26+W+Thomas+Rd,+Phoenix,+AZ+85033\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b1569ffe1ebdb:0x1d56d3203e29b2d0?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>75th Ave and West Thomas Road<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> The collapse caused a main water line to be severed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Todd Keller, with the fire department, said the collapse occurred at Somos Dental and Orthodonics, while patients were inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;After the hail starts coming down. I hear a really loud pop. I hear another pop. So when the second pop goes off, both the doctor and I look at the ceiling and we can clearly see all of the cracks. At that point he immediately starts evacuating all of our ortho patients and I started evacuated the rest of the office,&#8221; witness Bianca Esquer said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The mall was evacuated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;That\u2019s when we actually see the ceiling collapse,&#8221; Esquer said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Due to the fire suppression system (sprinklers) being disabled and flooding, the entire mall will be closed for an unknown amount of time,&#8221; the department said. The damage spread from the dental office to multiple businesses inside the mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officials said no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019m just glad everyone got out okay and everyone is safe,&#8221; Esquer said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The full extent of the damage inside the mall and what areas of the mall were impacted is currently unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">City of Phoenix structural engineers are coordinating the reopening of the mall back to the Desert Sky management team.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/desert-sky-mall-stillmap.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/6YFM1aSdcWLEZTdJ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map of where the partial collapse was reported.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A partial roof collapsed at Desert Sky Mall on Wednesday evening, according to Phoenix Fire Department.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-391377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115579990662214611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}