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Posted on 03/21/2026 3:17:31 PM PDT by CFW
A wedding party was interrupted when the floor collapsed at about 4:30 this afternoon in Tamworth, NH, according to emergency responders via radio traffic.
The Preserve at Chocorua, also being referred to as The Tap House, at 88 Philbrook Neighborhood Rd, Tamworth, NH was the venue for a wedding today with 145 people present when part of the floor collapsed into the basement during the event. The number of injured has not been stated, but at least 10 ambulances have responded from area towns in what was described as a mass casualty incident, and Life Flight is responding to transport one status 1 patient.
This is an active scene at this time. Please avoid the area.
THIS INCIDENT HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT (MCI), WHICH REFERS TO AN EVENT INVOLVING MULTIPLE PATIENTS AND A HIGH DEMAND FOR EMERGENCY RESOURCES. AN MCI DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY INDICATE FATALITIES. PLEASE AVOID THE AREA TO ALLOW RESPONDERS ACCESS.
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Prayers for the people injured and the first responders.
Terrible. I remember the Kansas City Skywalk collapse in ‘81, I believe.
website for the venue: https://www.reservethepreserve.com/
Amen!
I do, too. What a horror. Hopefully this is not anywhere close to that
My boss was the last person that they peeled off of the floor in the Hyatt disaster.
I guess the folks at Google know enough people are going to look at the location because they’ve tagged the location with an exclamation point in a circle and added “Tamworth building collapse”.
Yikes. On many levels.
That would be a nasty likely back/ eco altering call. Someone’s gonna get sued.
“Terrible. I remember the Kansas City Skywalk collapse in ‘81, I believe.“
Wasn’t there some kind of harmonic convergence involved there or did it just let go?
…back/ neck altering…
These are often caused by dozens of people dancing and stomping in unison. It causes what I think is called a harmonic convergence which weakens the deck and causes a collapse.
Another smaller one in Berkeley, CA almost eleven years ago:
Berkeley balcony collapse
On June 16, 2015, shortly after midnight, five Irish J-1 visa students and one Irish-American died and seven others were injured when a balcony on which they were standing collapsed. The group was celebrating a 21st birthday party in Berkeley, California. The balcony was on the 5th floor of an eight-year-old apartment building at 2020 Kittredge Street in Berkeley, then called Library Gardens.
All I remember about the incident was construction crews coming in the middle of the night to gut the rest of the inside of the building-lawyers. The Hyatt in SF had the same design.
My dad led his marine platoon over a suspension foot bridge over a gorge in Ithaca, NY back in WW II. He said it was great fun to march in step and set the bridge to swaying! He fortunately lived to tell about it and fathered me in 1950.
my guess is that some floor beams had too long of an unsupported span that were never designed to carry that much weight.
AI summary
Redesigned Hanger System: The original design called for a single set of rods to pass through both walkways, with each walkway supported independently.
The modified design changed this to two separate sets of rods, where the second-floor walkway was suspended from the fourth-floor walkway.
This design placed the entire weight of both walkways on the fourth-floor beams.
Failed Connection Detail: The fourth-floor beam was comprised of two steel box channels welded together, which were not strong enough to handle the increased load. The design lacked proper stiffeners or reinforcing steel plates, causing the nuts to pull through the box beams under the weight.
Failure of Review: The contractor suggested the rod change to ease construction, but the structural engineering firm approved the change without performing calculations or conducting a detailed review.
Neglected Safety Codes: The original design itself was already inadequate by industry standards, with a capacity only roughly 60% of what was required by building codes.
Especially on the level that collapsed.
Oh boy, thats kind of out there in the boondocks. Prayers for those folks. Getting them to help is going to take a few minutes.
“I guess the folks at Google “
Automated. AI?
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