New Orleans fire chief Tim McConnell says remains of two workers killed in the Hard Rock Hotel construction collapse more than nine months ago could be recovered this week, as they have reached that phase of the process of removing the wreckage.
"We'll have a couple of buckets up there with the rescuers in it," New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell said. "We will take and get the remains and put them into a container and immediately turn them over to the coroner who's going to be on site with us here, and then they'll go to the coroner's office for a positive identification, and then they'll be turned over to the family."
McConnell says they ahve asked for, and received from the FAA, a no-fly zone around the site. McConnell said that's primarily to keep drones from trying to photograph or get video of the work of retrieving the men's remains.
Of the three men killed in the October 12 collapse, remains of one was recovered, but the bodies of Quinnyon Wimberly and Jose Ponce Arreola remain buried in the rubble.