Mennonite Brethren Church Building Collapse

[Ron]

This Church runs about 1,200 and there was a about a thousand inside at the time. Apparently a Christian concert was on tonight and about 9 PM some lights and speakers came crashing through the Altar area & front pews.
It left a hole about 50 X 30 wide with everything dropping into the basement.
About 50 people were hurt.
Abbotsford is located about 45 miles east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley.


Multiple injuries after accident at Abbotsford church concert

THE CANADIAN PRESS

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - There have been multiple injuries after an accident at a concert at a church in Abbotsford, B.C.

Police say a portion of the floor collapsed during the concert at the Central Heights Church on Friday night. But eyewitnesses who called two Vancouver radio stations say the lighting system collapsed and crashed onto the stage. Abbotsford police Sergeant Casey Vinet there were hundreds of people at the church at the time.

He says some people were seriously injured and have already been taken to the hospital.

Vinet says all available police and ambulances in the area have been dispatched to the scene.

Emergency crews are treating other people at the scene.

An unidentified witness says there were people walking away with 'blood all over.'