A woman who survived her apartment building's collapse said she saw a crack in her bathroom doorway and ran out moments before the unit crumbled away

• A woman who fled her Iowa apartment building moments before it collapsed described her narrow escape.
• While she made it out in time, her wife was trapped under the rubble and had to have her leg amputated.

A woman who escaped her Davenport, Iowa, apartment moments before the building suddenly collapsed says she went for the exit after seeing a crack form in her doorway.

Lexus Berry told the Quad-City Times that she and her wife were sitting in their apartment on the fourth floor when they realized something was wrong. They took a picture of the crack in the doorway, then each grabbed one of their cats and fled.

Lexus made it out, but her wife, Quanishia White-Berry, didn't make it to the door before the room collapsed, the Times reported.

Lexus had no idea if she was alive and begged rescue teams to keep looking for her wife, the Times reported.

According to the Times, White-Berry was stuck in the wreckage for hours before a team of first responders and surgeons could free her by amputating her left leg above the knee on Monday.

The apartment building on Main Street in Davenport collapsed on Sunday. Officials haven't said what caused the building's collapse, but tenants had predicted the building would crumble, the Des Moines Register reported.

As of Monday evening, city officials announced that eight people had been pulled from the wreckage and that there were no others missing. They ordered the site to be demolished.

But protesters urged them to stop the demolition, WQAD reported, saying there were still people missing in the rubble. The city later put the demolition plans on hold after another person was found in the building — hours after officials had said there was no one left inside.