{"id":463390,"date":"2011-07-18T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/18\/ottawa-stage-collapse-hurts-five\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:40:25","slug":"ottawa-stage-collapse-hurts-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/ottawa-stage-collapse-hurts-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa stage collapse hurts five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"57.5838926174\"><span><span>18 July 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>10:40 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least five people were injured, one seriously, when a stage collapsed amid high winds at the Ottawa Bluesfest.<\/p>\n<p>Concert officials evacuated the stage on Sunday, moments before it collapsed 20 minutes after the start of a performance by rock band Cheap Trick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone is okay and we are so lucky to be alive and hope that all the fans are okay,&#8221; the group wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian authorities had warned of winds of up to 56mph (90 km\/h) ahead of the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was as if some invisible hand had pushed the entire structure over,&#8221; Ottawa Citizen concert reviewer Chris Cobb was quoted in a news article as saying. &#8220;It fell backwards almost intact and very quickly &#8211; like a house of cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One man was seriously injured when a piece of the stage pierced his abdomen, Canada&#8217;s Globe and Mail newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Following the collapse authorities cleared the festival. The remaining performances were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Bluesfest, first held in 1994, is one of Canada&#8217;s foremost music festivals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-14189342\" title=\"Ottawa stage collapse hurts five\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa stage collapse hurts five<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 18 July 2011 Last updated at 10:40 ET At least five people were injured, one seriously, when a stage collapsed amid high winds at the Ottawa Bluesfest. Concert officials evacuated the stage on Sunday, moments before it collapsed 20 minutes after the start of a performance by rock band Cheap Trick. &#8220;Everyone is okay and we are so lucky to be alive and hope that all the fans are okay,&#8221; the group wrote on Facebook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ottawa stage collapse hurts five - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/ottawa-stage-collapse-hurts-five\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ottawa stage collapse hurts five - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"18 July 2011 Last updated at 10:40 ET At least five people were injured, one seriously, when a stage collapsed amid high winds at the Ottawa Bluesfest. 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