Amputation frees woman from rubble of partially collapsed Iowa building

Davenport, Iowa — One moment Lexus Berry and her wife were rushing toward the door of their fourth-floor apartment and the next, Quanishia "Peach" Berry was gone.

Their apartment had disappeared into a heap of bricks and steel far below, leaving Lexis Berry running by herself to a stairwell in the teetering building, panicked that she might never see her wife again.

"The moment that we hit the door, it started to shake and rattle and literally - it all just happened in the blink of a second - the floors caved in, like collapsed," Lexus Berry said Wednesday. "So as the floors were falling, and she was falling four stories down, there were still two stories above her falling and two stories falling above me. It was all crumbling."