Massive solar panels hung off the edge of a North York apartment building Friday, prompting safety concerns from residents.

“Of course it’s scary,” said Samina Javed, who has lived in the apartment building at 31 St. Dennis Dr., near Eglinton Ave. E. and the Don Valley Parkway, for about two years.

The solar panels collapsed last weekend, residents say, but it wasn’t until Friday morning that emergency officials were notified.

Javed said it was her children who first told her the panels, installed last summer, had collapsed. She still hasn’t heard anything from the building’s management about the problem.

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Police taped off the sidewalk north of the building around 8:30 a.m. on Friday, concerned that wind could bring the giant sheets crashing to the ground. The panels stuck out several feet over the roof of the nine-storey building. Metal poles holding remaining panels in place appeared to be bending and buckling.

A crane was ordered to remove the panels hanging over the roof, and police were charged with keeping the area secure until the job was done, said Sgt. David Dube.

Resident Harry Singh said the building management had issued no safety warnings about the collapse. “It’s a good thing it’s winter, or else there’d be kids playing out there,” Singh said, noting there is a daycare in the building next door. That building also has solar panels affixed to the roof.

A woman who answered the phone at the management office on Friday morning directed all questions about the panels’ collapse to the company that installed them, Ensqr Corp. Calls to the company were not returned Friday.

The city issued a permit for the panels to be installed last year, said George Zacharakis, a senior building inspector who was assessing the situation on Friday.

The engineer who oversaw the installation blamed the panels’ collapse on wind, Zacharakis said.

Zacharakis said he’ll follow up with the engineer to find out what, exactly, went wrong and make sure the solar panels on the twin building are safe and secure.

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“I want some more information from the building engineer,” he said.

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