The phrase "fall from the building" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something physically descending from the top of a building. For example: After scaling the side of the highrise, the climber quickly descended, falling from the building.
"Two days ago, bricks started to fall from the building.
That afternoon, residents heard rumbling and saw bricks fall from the building's facade moments before the structure collapsed, said Robert D. LiMandri, the Buildings Department commissioner, who visited the site Monday to inspect the damage.
Impact failure of a front panel of a building may have not only an important economic value but also human lives may be at risk if broken pieces of the panel fall from the building to the pavement.
The Buildings Department has recorded a half-dozen occasions of debris falling from the building in the past two years.
But The Associated Press reported Wednesday that an agency spokeswoman had called the death accidental, saying Mr. Wu fell from the building.
"When I turned to look, I saw that it was a man who had fallen from the building".
"I heard a loud noise, things were falling from the building, and I ran," said Marlo Goodman, 36.
There is a large crater in the building and orange flames beyond the crater and black shapes of people falling from the building.
At the time no major works were planned, but lumps of concrete later started falling from the building, prompting health and safety fears.
The report also noted that firefighters had gone into the building in the period before the fire to help injured workers and that, on May 17, 2007, a pipe fell from the building through the roof of an adjacent firehouse, Engine No. 10, but none of that was enough to prompt anyone to ask for inspections.
Several floors of the Upper East Side high-rise are in flames with debris falling from the building.
