14 DAY TRIAL // A hundred people who were attending a home birthday party in Handsworth, Birmingham, plummeted eight feet (2.4 meters) when a floor collapsed beneath them.
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday, and luckily nobody was seriously injured after the floor buckled under the revelers’ weight and collapsed into the basement.
“We were all dancing and then we felt the floor wobbling. We were all really lucky. A huge piece of concrete fell off the wall and that could have seriously hurt someone. We got away with cuts and bruises,” Birmingham City University student Qadar Adde, who was DJing at the time, said.
Apparently, the big crowd that gathered at the house located in Livingstone Road were celebrating three different birthdays.
Three ambulances, police cars, fire crews and the Trust’s hazardous area response team were sent to the scene. Paramedics who treated the party goers said it was a “miracle” nobody was seriously injured.
“On arrival at the scene, approximately 100 people had managed to get themselves out of the house after part of the floor had collapsed into a vacant basement area,” a West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman told the Mirror.
Fire crews attending the incident believe the collapse was caused by a damp problem. The students living in the residence were only allowed to return after electricians and structural surveyors checked the building was safe.