Re: Indiana Stage Fair Stage Collapse
They do. According to the Indiana State Police they were not only monitoring the situation in real time, an auto dialer contacted them with a severe storm warning. At 8:45 pm it was announced to evacuate and at 8:49 pm the structure failed.
Here is the official ISP timeline...
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/28862508/detail.html
As for why they didn't bring it in, you can't land it under load. How those big structures work is they hoist the roof structure/ grid into position, lock it off they hang from that. On that scale they don't have the lift capacity to bring it safely under load. Best thing to do at that point is get everyone clear. They were trying it seems but didn't have the time. Some of the armchair guys that don't do it at this scale need to give it a rest until the pros weigh in on what did cause the failure. Last night some of us "gray beards", about 150 years experience combined watched the video and not one of us had witnessed such a thing. Ever. We're talking well healed, ultra Varsity 25-30 years in the biz guys. None of us could speak for a little bit.
