This is a picture of the floor above the fire apartment in 40's territory. This is lightweight cement covering a wood OSB floor. This is common in new construction apartments.
The fire ran up an outside wall and burned all the fooring away leaving the lightweight nonbearing cement. Luckily, when firefighters entered the room they were moving slowly because of smoke conditions or they would have fallen through.
This is a case of new style "through the door through the floor" collapse. Yet another reason to be familiar with your territory.
Have you experienced this before? Where?
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