COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A part of a area collapsed and 14 other folks have been injured close to The Ohio State College Saturday night time when other folks climbed onto a roof that was once no longer designed to carry vital weight, government stated.
Columbus Department of Hearth Battalion Leader Steve Martin stated his division gained a file round 7:40 p.m. of a roof cave in on East thirteenth Street and arrived to search out the roof above a entrance porch had collapsed whilst the remainder of the house remained intact.
“The few folks that have been trapped, I consider, have been almost definitely unpinned,” Martin stated. “It was once like their leg was once stuck below one of the construction and one of the scholars lifted that off the scholars. So everyone was once roughly out.”
First responders to begin with discovered 10 injured other folks and sooner or later transported 14 twist of fate sufferers to house hospitals with “more than a few states of accidents” however all of them have been in strong situation, Martin stated.
“It sounds as if the roof was once overloaded with scholars,” Martin stated, with estimates starting from 15 to 45 other folks on a rooftop “that was once no longer designed to have any one on it, and it gave manner.”
The names of the house proprietor or occupants weren’t in an instant to be had.
The house isn’t at the belongings of The Ohio State College. The principle campus in Columbus has an enrolled pupil inhabitants of 61,677 for the 2022-2023 college yr, in step with the college’s web page.