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Shocking video captured the moment a floor collapsed during an out-of-control birthday party at a Colorado home — sending dozens of teens tumbling into the basement.
Up to 150 teens were partying when the floor gave way, KUSA reported, citing South Metro Fire Rescue.
The homeowners were hosting a birthday party for their 18-year-old grandson when the accident happened about 9:30 p.m. Saturday inside the house on East Princeton Place, southeast of the Denver-area suburb of Aurora, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office told the station.
Three partygoers were taken to the hospital. One person suffered serious injuries in the fall, while the two others sustained minor injuries, according to firefighters.
The birthday bash became out-of-control after word reportedly got out on social media, where the address was shared and people began showing up in droves.
“I think it just got leaked around a little bit so everyone thought it was just an open house,” Cass Henry, 15, told KUSA. “People started just showing up.”
Cass and his brother, 17-year-old AJ, were among the partygoers who fell through the floor.
“Two seconds before the ground ended up breaking, you could hear it all snapping apart, but you didn’t have enough time to do anything about it,” said Cass, who suffered a broken ankle.
Scott Richardson, special operations chief for SMFR, said: “It’s amazing that no one was seriously hurt or killed.”
He added: “It’s not the static weight of us just standing on [the floor], but if people are jumping up and down, and that creates what we call a ‘shock load’ to the floor, and then you can’t really predict what’s going to happen.”
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