SC - At least 30 people injured during floor collapse at party in Clemson, 20 Oct 2018

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At least 30 people injured during floor collapse at party
October 21
"CLEMSON, S.C. (WPVI) --
Thirty People were taken to the hospital Sunday morning after a floor collapsed during a party at an apartment complex.

It happened around 12:30 am at The Woodlands Apartments on Old Greenville Highway.

According to the Clemson City Police Department, a private party was being held in the Clubhouse when at some point the floor collapsed and crashed to the second level of the building."

 

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Floor collapse at university apartment party in South Carolina leaves 30 hurt
"Video posted on social media shows a large portion of a floor on the first level of the building caving in as people were dancing, causing dozens to fall through to the floor below.

Clemson sophomore Larissa Stone told the Independent Mail of Anderson that the room was "packed" and a popular song was playing when the floor collapsed.

"So everyone was jumping. The beat was about to drop and literally the whole floor collapsed," she said. "It happened so quickly. I stood up, and everyone was trying to climb out. People are under other people. People are hurt. People are bleeding. I had blood on my sneakers. It was really bad."

Partygoers screamed, and those who didn't fall stood on portions of the first floor that remained and gazed below in shock. Some people standing on the sidelines pulled out their cellphones to record the floor collapse.

A witness who attended the party said people were jumping and then suddenly he heard "a boom."

"All you seen was falling, everybody's hands up in the air," Franzie Pendergrass told WYFF News 4.

Leroy Pearson said he went to try to help injured people and saw what he thought looked like broken ankles and legs."