One day after the parking garage at the Pepper Mill Condominiums, 710 S. Atherton St., collapsed, things are starting to return to normal.

While the State College High School football team is back on its field, the streets are reopened and the emergency response vehicles have all left the scene, the rubble remains.

After digging through the wreckage until almost 5:30 a.m. yesterday, officials said there was no one in the collapsed garage, no one injured or killed in the accident.

The cause of the collapse has not yet been determined, but the co-director of the Centre Region codes office was on the scene yesterday performing preliminary investigations.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, the west end of the two-story parking deck collapsed, crushing about 11 vehicles on the ground floor of the structure and causing about 19 vehicles from the top to tumble.

Kate Winkler (junior-crime, law and justice) was in her apartment when her car fell from the top of deck.

"I was dozing off, but I heard it," she said. "It sounded like a car accident, thunder, something like that."

Winkler's car was sandwiched between two others on the slanted roof, keeping her from meeting friends to celebrate her birthday.

The collapse also caused large pieces of metal and cable wires to protrude through the piles of cinder blocks and bricks the collapse created.

Two vehicles that were parked on the edge of the fallen portion were left hanging on the edge, causing workers to tie down one of them.

However, those vehicles were not damaged, said Jim Brown, deputy fire chief for Alpha Fire Co.

Brown said workers had to take the process slowly and methodically to ensure the safety of the workers.

He said that once the Penn State structural engineers on the scene deemed the structure safe, the vehicles in and atop the garage were removed rather quickly.

The emergency brought crews from four regions to the scene, along with search dogs from three agencies.

"Everything went real well," Brown said. "Especially with the coordination."

Because the building is not a complex of condominiums, each individual unit is individually owned and rented out by that owner.

No one from the Pepper Mill Condominiums, whose office was closed yesterday, was available for comment.

Associated Realty Property Management owns three of the units in the building but does not own the property. A homeowners' association manages the property, an Associated Realty spokeswoman said. The Daily Collegian could not reach property owners for comment yesterday.