Welcome to the news at 10A fraternity event gone wrong. University of Idaho’s Phi Kappa Tau chapter is in some hot water after fraternity members held a party Saturday night where a platform they built collapsed and sent four people to the hospital. Abby Davis spoke with the student who was there. Abby. That’s right.
This student is a junior at U of I, and I asked her if alcohol played a role in this structure collapsing. And on East Herb says it’s honestly just too hard to tell, but that she hopes students are more careful. In the future. Saturday night didn’t turn out like University
Of Idaho junior Anna E Herb planned. They were just really just chaotic all at once because no one was really expecting it to happen. What happened? A raised platform collapsed, injuring 4 people. It was built by U of I5 capital fraternity members. It’s like an every year tradition that they have.
Here’s what they built in 2017. You can climb up like using like a structure. They build kind of to climb up onto it. It’s like a little lookout area, basically. I think people just kept climbing up when people, when everyone was trying to get them to
Come down and it was just at Max capacity and people were trying to get them down because they recognize that there were too many people on there. Because I went up there because I thought, you know, I wanted to see what it looked like. It looked fine and they immediately
Kicked me off and there. And then once that happened like 5 minutes after it fell down and they were still trying to get people down and that was fraternity brothers trying to regulate the situation. Probably just trying to have like, some risk management. Moscow Volunteer Fire Chief Brian Nickerson says the platform that
Collapsed was six or seven feet tall. First responders arrived at the scene around 11:30 PM Erb says at least 30 people were standing on the platform when it collapsed. Some people were underneath. The men in the fraternity were trying to get everyone who wasn’t injured or wasn’t involved in at all to
Leave property immediately and, like, get out of the situation so no one else got hurt and to see to get to the people who were injured. Nickerson told KTVB first responders took the four injured people to Gritman Medical Center. One person was later flown to another hospital nearby because of severe injuries.
University administration say they are quote, working with the injured students parents and are trying to better understand the situation. I also reached out to you advise Interfraternity Council and the Phi Capital fraternity but did not hear back. As a member of the Greek community herself, Herb says she’s hoping for better
Risk management in the future when someone tells you. Something it’s probably for your safety, not because they’re not trying to have you make you have fun, you know, that’s definitely a lesson for a lot of people, I think is making sure there are those extra safety steps and
Just having them in place and prepare for the worst almost. Yeah. Obviously, as we watched this story, the first thing that comes to mind, you know, we’ve, we’ve heard from her. But but do they know, does anybody know what went wrong? Well, that’s really just the $1,000,000 question.
And they don’t. As of right now, officials don’t have really specifics about why this structure collapsed, but they are investigating. So we’ll just have to wait and see. All right. Abby Davis, thank you.
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