One individual is useless and dozens extra have been injured after a extreme storm brought on the roof to break down throughout a heavy steel live performance on the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, on Friday.
Roughly 260 music followers have been in attendance for a live performance that includes Morbid Angel and different bands when 90 mph winds blew via the world and brought on the historic venue’s roof to collapse. One individual was killed and 28 others have been injured, 5 of them severely, in accordance with the Related Press.
“Tonights present is Canceled resulting from a Twister that hit the Venue, and brought on the roof, over the world in-front of the stage, and marquee to break down,” Morbid Angel wrote in a Fb put up Friday.
“We ask anybody who continues to be touring to the venue to please search shelter and keep protected. We’re at present sheltering in place, and wish to lengthen our assist and hope that everybody on the present tonight is protected. Proper now our focus is on ensuring everybody within the venue tonight is okay and will get dwelling.”
Concertgoers in attendance on the 1,500-capacity venue reportedly rushed to raise the collapsed a part of the ceiling and assist others out of the wreckage.
“They dragged somebody out from the rubble, and I sat with him and I held his hand and I used to be [telling him,] ‘It’s going to be OK.’ I didn’t actually know a lot else what to do,” Gabrielle Lewellyn, who was in attendance, advised WTVO-TV.
Belvidere police chief Shane Woody described the scene at Apollo Theatre as “absolute chaos.”
“When officers are first on the scene, when the fireplace division and first responders get right here, they do one of the best they will to manage the chaos as a lot as doable,” Woody stated, CBS Chicago stories. “However finally, we go in, and finally attempt to discover individuals, and save as many individuals as we probably can — and produce them to security as greatest as we are able to.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker additionally tweeted on Friday, “My administration is intently monitoring the roof collapse on the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere tonight. I’ve been in contact with officers for updates and to direct any accessible assets we are able to.”
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.
