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At Least 5 Killed In Bavaria In Rink Roof Collapse  
User currently offlineBoeing744 From Canada, joined Jun 2005, 1769 posts, RR: 25
Posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1299 times:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1463579

This sounds terribble. More people are trapped... I hope they get them out as soon as possible. It happened in Bad Reichenhall.

[Edited 2006-01-02 23:45:50]

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User currently offlineANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1279 times:

Saw this on the evening news here tonight - an indoor skating rink - said most of the victims are children.  Sad

Not good news of course. I hope they find more survivors than victims.

Any A-Netters in that area with details?

User currently offlineLTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12331 posts, RR: 12
Reply 2, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1273 times:

A late report on MSNBC.com here in the USA said it is 11 dead. Any idea of what caused the collaspe? Bad design? Heavy snow/ice? Bad drainage of roof?

User currently offlineTbar220 From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7011 posts, RR: 28
Reply 3, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1267 times:

Man that's really bad. I don't want to picture this but I can't help it, working at an ice rink myself. This must have been horrible.


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User currently offlineANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1264 times:

Quoting LTBEWR (Reply 2):
Heavy snow/ice?

Flat roof, heavy snow . . . bad combination.

User currently onlineKlaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20850 posts, RR: 55
Reply 5, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1260 times:

Tragic - and probably avoidable. Sad

From what I've heard so far it was a combination of an aging 1970s construction and heavy wet snow fall. They checked the snow load a few hours before but still deemed it safe until they would have had started clearing the snow away later...

The question is why they cancelled a training session that would have been held later but didn't evacuate. We'll probably know more soon.

User currently offlineDtwclipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (7 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1255 times:

It's kind of strange for me, I worked for a summer at the Steigenberger Hotel in Bad Reichenhall in the mid-80's.
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