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A survivor of the building collapse in Iowa had to have her leg amputated in a desperate rescue, her wife has revealed.

Quanishia White-Berry - better known to friends as Peach - was pulled from the rubble in downtown Davenport Monday, and is now on the mend after losing the limb.

Not leaving her side in the time since is wife Lexus, who was forced to make the harrowing decision to allow first-responders to sever Berry's leg to set her free.

The couple's account comes as two men, Ryan Hitchcock and Branden Colvin, likely remain trapped under the wreckage of Sunday’s collapse, tentatively halting plans for a city-authorized demolition to address the building’s structural integrity.

With another collapse all but iminiate, officials are now searching for the potential survivors - as several relatives slept outside a barrier prohibiting entry to the building Wednesday. 

Among them was Colvin's eldest son Brandon Jr - whose younger brother the day before was seen holding a sign protesting the city's lack of action.

'Where is my dad?,' a heartbreaking message etched on sign touted by Colvin's youngest son read Wednesday evening, per a post published by his mother Devina.

An accompanying caption called for an update from city officials, who have yet to charge the building's owner, Andrew Wold, with a crime. 

'My heart hurts for my son,' Devina wrote. 'Please find his dad for him and his siblings. Give us answers.'

Also calling for increased transparency is Lexus Berry, who in the wake of the 116-year-old building's unexpected collapse Sunday around 5 pm CDT was able to narrowly escape - only to realize wife Quanishia was nowhere to be seen.

Lexus recounted the couple's near-death experience in an interview with a local newspaper this week, speaking at length about the disaster, and how it left her wife one of at least seven trapped in a mound of suffocating rubble.

'There was nothing left but where I was standing,' Lexus told a reporter with The Quad-City Times Sunday night, when Quanishia was still buried and her fate unknown.

Speaking to the paper, Lexus gave her first-hand account of how the collapse started - recalling how they noticed a crack in the ceiling while sitting in their fourth-floor apartment.

Within minutes, Lexus said she snapped a picture - immediately suspecting something was wrong. Both women picked up one of their two pet cats to leave, before the building came tumbling around them 

In a telephone interview with the outlet Tuesday - with her beloved sedated in the hospital and on a ventilator - Lexus offered more insight, laying bare a harrowing rescue attempt that resulted in her loved one losing a leg.

'There was a lot of debris and things surrounding her and her legs were pinned down. 

'They were able to get one leg out, but the other leg in order to get her out, they had to amputate it. 

'It was a scene that I'll never forget. I'll never forget that image of the way she was trapped.'