Multiple people injured after floor collapses at New Hampshire wedding venue
Six people were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries after the floor of a wedding venue in Tamworth, New Hampshire, collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, a spokesperson for the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office said.
The collapse occurred as a wedding party was attended by about 140 people, according to audio recording from first responders. The Fire Marshal’s Office confirmed there were no deaths.
A phone call to the venue, Chocorua Reserve, was not answered. Tamworth, a town of about 2,800 people, is about 115 miles north of Concord, New Hampshire.
Dispatchers with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office confirmed multiple agencies were responding to an incident, but declined to discuss further details Saturday evening. Phone calls to MaineHealth Memorial Hospital went unanswered Saturday evening.
A spokesperson for the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office confirmed it had dispatched members to the scene and that the office would take over the investigation into the structural collapse.
A first responder who arrived on scene shortly after 911 calls were made described half of the floor of the building where the wedding ceremony was to take place as having fallen into the basement. He asked for more first responders to speak to witnesses, saying about 145 people were at the event. The speaker also said they were carefully removing people from the building.
