One person was killed and 28 others injured when the roof of a theater collapsed during a heavy metal rock concert late Friday in northwestern Illinois, fire officials said.
April 1 One person was killed and 28 others injured when the roof of a theater collapsed during a heavy metal rock concert late Friday in northwestern Illinois, fire officials said.
Of those injured in the incident at the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Ill., five were hospitalized with severe injuries and 18 sustained “moderate” injuries, Belvidere Fire Chief Shawn Schadle told reporters.
The city of 25,000, located about 70 miles northwest of Chicago, had been placed under a tornado warning at 7:45 p.m. on Friday evening amid an outbreak of severe weather across Illinois and the Central United States, and only 10 minutes later authorities received their first emergency call, he said.
