A woman was shocked people were allowed back in the damaged Press building after the 2010 Boxing Day aftershock, an inquiry has heard.
After the February 22 Christchurch quake the building collapsed, killing Adrienne Lindsay, 54, and badly injuring several others, including a woman whose legs had to be amputated.
Staff at the newspaper had been just weeks away from moving into a new building on Gloucester St.
Press credit controller Naomi Magee told yesterday's royal commission that when she returned from holiday in January last year there were cracks around doorways on her floor, within sight of her desk, and cloth coverings on the main stairwell, TVNZ reported. "I still remember ... I was quite astonished that we were in the building and remember thinking, 'How can we be in here?'," she said.
"We felt unsafe in that building."