A PEDESTRIAN SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN MERRILLVILLE, INDIANA, failed Saturday night while it was filled with people leaving the city’s annual fireworks display.
The 90-ft.-long wooden bridge spans a part of Hidden Lake in the municipal park. “We were walking across and everybody just stopped … we heard two snaps, and we all went in the water,” said one resident who was on the bridge. There were at least 50 people on the bridge at the time.
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Emergency workers who were already at the park immediately went into the lake and started pulling people out while more rescue units responded to the scene. About 50 fire-rescue units and dive teams from throughout the region were dispatched along with a police helicopter that stayed overhead lighting the scene for the rescuers.
A human chain was set up to search the bottom for any vicitms, but none were found. About 25 people were transported with a variety of injuries, but it seems that none were life-threatening. There were approximately 10,000 visitors at the park for the fireworks show.
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