30 Injured After Floor Collapses During Clemson Fraternity's Homecoming Party

Disaster struck during a party at an apartment clubhouse on Saturday night, when a floor collapsed under dozens of partygoers in Clemson, South Carolina.

Video footage from the incidentshared on social media shows a roomful of people jumping up and down to the music before they’re suddenly sent plummeting to the floor below as the middle of the dance floor caves in.

The Clemson City Police Department revealed 30 people were taken to local hospitals on Sunday morning,WSPAreported.

Twenty-three students were transported to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the campus update. Additionally, several partygoers also took themselves to local hospitals, which brought the number of injuries to approximately 30.

“You could hear the floor about to go through, kind of,” Jeremy Tester, one of the attendees at the party, told CNN, “but nobody thought it was going to happen. They just kept going.”

Another partygoer, Jaylen Adams, added that he could actually feel the floor moving up and down before the collapse. “It was just a shocking moment for everyone,” he continued, adding that he saw some people “crying” and “bleeding.”

“We’re just thankful that it was not any worse than it was,” Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon told CNN affiliateWYFF, adding that no partygoers had been trapped after the floor collapsed.

The investigation into what caused the collapse is ongoing, CNN reported.

Police first received a call about the collapse around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, reported theGreenville News.

Clemson University EMS and Fire were also dispatched and helped transport the injured partygoers to the hospital, according to the campus alert.

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