A Lego display collapsed onto spectators during a 'Noon Year's Eve' balloon drop at an arcade in Peabody, Massachusetts, injuring 10 people, including five children.
Ten people were hurt when a Lego display fell onto spectators at a family-oriented New Year's event at a Peabody, Massachusetts, arcade on Tuesday, fire officials said. The incident was caught on video. All 10 of the injuries were minor, according to Peabody Fire Chief John Dowling, but eight people, five of them children, were taken to local hospitals; two declined to go.
The collapse took place while employees at the arcade, In the Game on Lowell Street, were trying to conduct a'Noon Year's Eve' balloon drop, the fire chief told NBC10 Boston. That knocked over a Lego display, which fell about 12 feet onto people.A representative for In The Game's ownership group told NBC10 Boston the team was working with authorities and referred further questions to the Peabody Fire Department. Video obtained by NBC10 Boston shows a large crowd of people, including kids, underneath a net full of balloons. A large, gray display, apparently depicting a video game arcade machine, tips over, spilling onto people below. Some people screamed.A still from a spectator's video showing the moment 10 people were hurt when a Lego display fell onto a crowd, including children, at a New Year's event at a Peabody, Massachusetts, arcade on Tuesday. Keegan Oblenes said it took a moment for people in the crowd, including the 13-year-old himself, to figure out what happened, and that people were hurt. 'I didn't know anybody was hurt until after,' Keegan said.'Then I was sort of worried and everybody started clearing out and then an ambulance showed up. And a fire truck. And then the stretcher came out.
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