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Red flags regarding the building started to emerge in February.

The six-story building in downtown Davenport partially collapsed just before 5 p.m. Sunday, but it took hours before rescuers found Peach Berry trapped in the rubble and then determined one of her legs would need to be amputated to pull her free. Lexus Berry gave her assent.

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Davenport was mulling next steps for the unstable structure, where five residents remained unaccounted for and officials feared at least two of them might be stuck in the debris.

An electronic paper trail shows the city was aware of structural problems that needed attention and reveals a sometimes off-hand attitude toward residents' and contractors' concerns about the 80-unit apartment complex that partially collapsed last Sunday.

A structural engineer was hired to inspect The Davenport earlier this year, following various complaints from residents.

Quanishia "Peach" Berry ended up trapped beneath a pile of debris when the apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, where she lived with her wife, Lexus, partially collapsed Sunday night.

Davenport Police Chief Jeff Bladel said there were 53 tenants in the 80-unit building. Andrew Wold of Davenport Hotel, L.L.C. has also released a statement.

Four days before an Iowa apartment building collapsed, an engineering firm warned that it appeared at risk of crumbling.

It took hours before rescuers found Peach Berry trapped in the rubble and then determined one of her legs would need to be amputated to pull her free.