Posted on 08/13/2011 7:42:05 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
INDIANAPOLIS - A stage has collapsed at a concert at the Indiana State Fair.
The stage was set up for the Sugarland concert at the state fairgrounds. Rigging for the stage lighting reportedly fell around 8:50 p.m., before the main act took the stage.
Police and fire crews believe they have everyone moved from the grandstand. A triage unit has been set up near the Hoosier Lottery exhibit at the fair. Other victims are also being transported to at least two area hospitals.
Several ambulances can be seen entering and leaving the area.
Fair and emergency officials are planning a news conference for shortly after 10 p.m.
Dave Lindquist, music journalist for The Indianapolis Star, reported on Twitter, "Tragedy at fair concert. Entire stage collapses on track." He also wrote that "perhaps a dozen injured people have been removed from track on stretcher-type boards."
Eyewitness News' Chuck Lofton reported from the scene that evacuation efforts were in place before the stage collapsed. High winds may have played a role in the collapse...
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Ditto Ohio. A good friend was watching his son’s football game in the top row of the high school stadium. A wind gust took ripped the big banner loose and it flipped him 5 rows down head first into the bleachers and broke his neck.
Repost from the other thread Hey! This is awful Same thing happened to Cheap Trick in Ottawa, nobody killed though.
I guess you have to be careful with temporary stage structures.
Terrible for the folks on stage, awful for the crowd, who can see it happening yet can’t do anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqpXNfywT4
Look for the Union Label
That is not true. I was at that concert, and just feet from the collapsed rigging. Maybe two minutes before the collapse, an announcer from a local radio station came on stage. He gave instruction on what to do “if” it began to storm during the concert. It was mentioned as a contingency of rain, not a warning to leave and take cover. Many news stories are getting this part of the story wrong.
“Look for the Union Label”
LMAO.
Video link is good shot of what happened.
What does that mean?
LMAO.
Cheetah Cat why would you say a thing like that, here are peopole out enjoying the State Fair, and through no fault of their own, they are injured in an accident. And you think it is funny.Sure a sorry world isn't it??
IATSE Local 30 supplies the stage hands for the Indiana State Fair.
There was a nasty line of storms that went through east central Illinois a few hours earlier and headed towards Indianapolis. Some cells had high winds and tennis ball size hail.
“IATSE Local 30 supplies the stage hands for the Indiana State Fair.”
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