A demolition company in Texas is currently under a lot of pressure after they accidentally demolished the wrong house.

The incident happened in East Dallas, Texas, where a demolition company ended up destroying a 97-year-old pink home.

The house became an innocent victim to a mistake when the crew of the demolition company thought it was the place that had been marked for destruction.

According to reports, the crew from the JR’s Demolition Company did not see any house numbers on the property or on the sidewalk, where they are usually found, so they assumed that they were in the right place.

The pink house that we are talking about did not have any plumbing, electrical wiring or gas meter and was missing a foundation.

All these things made it seem like they found the right house.

Not only that, people from the neighborhood did not stop the demolition from happening as there were a lot of properties being renovated and torn down in the area.

Neighbor Zach Basich talked with CBS 11 and told them what happened.

During the interview with CBS 11, Zach said, “I was pulling up just as the bulldozer and wrecking crew was getting out of here. Didn’t think much of it just thought another permanent demolition in the neighborhood.”

The previous owner of the house reportedly died 3 years ago and gave it to Jeremy Wenninger, a good friend, who now lives in California, USA.

According to reports, Jeremy was informed about the destruction of the property as the bulldozers were getting to work.

The sad part about this is that Jeremy was planning to renovate the place as it had a lot of sentimental memories.

Bobby Lindamood, the owner of JR’s Demolition, released a statement about the incident and apologized for what happened.

In the statement, the owner of the demolition company said they are working very closely with Jeremy, the right full owner of the house, and are looking into things very closely.

In the statement Bobby said:

“JR’s Demolition is a small family business who has been in the demolition business for 15 years. I, as the owner, have been in demolition over 35 years, and after 50,000 plus structure demolitions, this is the first incident wherein the wrong structure was demolished. We made a mistake and thought we had the right property. Many homes on Richard street have been demolished by JR’s and other demolition companies in connection with the current redevelopment and revitalisation of this area. Nonetheless, JR’s inspected this property ensuring that it was empty. The rear door was boarded up and lacked a non-operational front door. The front yard was covered with cut trees debris just as any demo house is before demolition. Neighbouring workers stated the property had vagrants and has been vacant since October last year. In short, the property was similar in appearance and condition to many of the properties that JR’s demolished on Richard Street.”

Jeremy said the properly lost all of its sentimental value as it is now destroyed.

Jeremy confirmed that he is cooperating with the company.