{"id":7398,"date":"2025-10-18T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:49:07","slug":"university-of-cincinnati-balcony-collapse-sends-10-people-to-hospital-1-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7398\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Cincinnati balcony collapse sends 10 people to hospital, 1 critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten people were injured \u2014 one critically \u2014\u00a0when a third-floor balcony collapsed at an off-campus apartment near the University of Cincinnati Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Students from the school were celebrating when the tragic collapse occurred in the city\u2019s Corryville neighborhood just after 10 p.m.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/local12.com\/news\/local\/balcony-collapse-near-uc-sends-10-hospital-1-with-life-threatening-injuries-students-student-stetson-avenue-corryville-serious-injury-hospitalized-police-fire-emergency-medical-response-falling-critical-condition#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officials told WKRC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a big exam today and they were celebrating,\u201d\u00a0Cincinnati Police Department Capt. Stephen Bowe\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7761194;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37417277\" width=\"952\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/balcony-collapse.png\" alt=\"Ten people were hospitalized when a balcony collapsed near the University of Cincinnati's campus on Friday night. \" class=\"wp-image-37417277\"  \/>Ten people were hospitalized when a balcony collapsed near the University of Cincinnati\u2019s campus on Friday night.  Citizen<\/p>\n<p>The wooden platform sat approximately 20 feet above the parking lot when it broke off the side of the building near the university\u2019s College of Medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remnants of the balcony jutted out of the building while the platform stood vertically and officials investigated the scene, according to photos posted online.<\/p>\n<p>One person is being treated with \u201clife-threatening\u201d injuries while five others were listed in serious condition, officials told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining four victims suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.79323308;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37417278\" width=\"954\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screen-Shot-2025-10-18-at-2.50.13-AM.png\" alt=\"Officials said that the residents were celebrating the end of a big exam.\" class=\"wp-image-37417278\"  \/>Officials said that the residents were celebrating the end of a big exam. Citizen<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the collapse is under investigation. Officials did not reveal how many people were on the balcony at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not identify any of the victims but noted several were students.<\/p>\n<p>The building, located approximately a half mile from campus, is not a campus-affiliated housing unit, but many students live in the apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Over 20 units from the Cincinnati Fire Department responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten people were injured \u2014 one critically \u2014\u00a0when a third-floor balcony collapsed at an off-campus apartment near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1757,9,11,10,1758,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-7398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cincinnati","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-ohio","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}