{"id":2023058,"date":"2023-09-06T05:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pier-collapses-on-university-of-wisconsin-campus-over-20-injured\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T09:17:26","slug":"pier-collapses-on-university-of-wisconsin-campus-over-20-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pier-collapses-on-university-of-wisconsin-campus-over-20-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 injured as pier collapses at University of Wisconsin."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpier-collapses-on-university-of-wisconsin-campus-over-20-injured%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>University of Wisconsin Pier Collapse Leaves One\u2064 Hospitalized \u200cand \u2063Several Injured<\/h2>\n<p>Madison, Wis.\u2014A pier where University of Wisconsin students and others\u2063 were celebrating Labor Day collapsed into a lake, resulting in one person being hospitalized \u2063and approximately \u200b20 others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-looters-storm-a-california-nordstrom-employees-pepper-sprayed-physically-assaulted\/\" title=\"Dozens Of Looters Storm A California Nordstrom; Employees Pepper-Sprayed, Physically Assaulted\">sustaining minor injuries<\/a>, according\u2063 to\u2063 officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Video footage captured from Lake\u2064 Mendota&#8217;s shoreline reveals the moment when a section of the metal\u200c pier, located just east\u200d of\u200b the Union Terrace stage on the Madison campus, gave way on \u200dMonday afternoon, causing individuals to plunge into the water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Madison Fire Department reported that\u2062 one person was transported to a hospital with\u2064 non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-duty-austin-police-officer-forced-to-confront-armed-suspect\/\" title=\"Off-duty Austin police officer forced to confront armed suspect\">-life-threatening injuries<\/a>, while five others received treatment at the scene for minor injuries. Additionally, UW-Madison Police\u200d Officer\u200b Jeff Kirchman\u200b stated that around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pier-collapses-on-university-of-wisconsin-campus-over-20-injured\/\" title=\"Over 20 injured as pier collapses at University of Wisconsin.\">20 individuals\u2062 suffered minor injuries<\/a>, in addition to the hospitalized person.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Debra Drewek,\u200c a retired nurse who happened to\u2062 be \u2064at \u2063the terrace taking\u2064 pictures when the collapse occurred, \u200ddescribed\u200c the chaotic scene: &#8220;There were way too many \u2064kids on the piers. They were packed. There was \u200cno\u2064 warning. All of a\u2063 sudden \u200cit went down and people were in the\u2063 water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Drewek mentioned that \u200cmany of those on the collapsed section \u200dmanaged to swim to shore, while others clung to the pier, awaiting rescue boats. She observed that most \u200dinjuries seemed to\u2063 be leg scrapes and noted, &#8220;a \u2062lot of kids were crying because they had laptops, wallets, and \u2063phones underwater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to recover lost items \u200dfrom the lake, as Kirchman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>School officials stated that an estimated 60 to\u2064 80 \u2062students and members of the\u200d public\u2064 were on \u2064the pier at the time of the collapse. The pier was open to\u200c the public, although swimming in the surrounding area of the lake\u2064 was prohibited, and \u200dno lifeguards were on duty. The incident is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The pier was \u2063scheduled for removal on Tuesday due to the end of the summer season,\u200b according to school spokesman \u200dJohn Lucas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h-[72px] overflow-hidden post_content\">\n<div class=\"mb-6 overflow-hidden\">\n<div><em>By\u2062 The Associated Press<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day, a pier in Madison, Wisconsin, collapsed into Lake Mendota. Around 20 people sustained minor injuries, while one person was hospitalized. The incident occurred during a celebration attended by University of Wisconsin students and others. Video footage captured the collapse near the Union Terrace stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":2023059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}