'Warrior Dash' Participants Hospitalized after Climbing Obstacle Collapses

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A climbing obstacle with more than 20 people on it collapsed during a 5K obstacle race near Baton Rouge, and four people — including a 10-year-old child — remained hospitalized Sunday, the State Fire Marshal's Office said. "We don't know exactly how many were injured," but do know 12 were taken to hospitals by ambulance or helicopter, Chief Deputy State Fire Marshal Brant Thompson said Sunday. He said he believed the child was a girl, but he wasn't certain. "We do know ... we had broken bones, lacerations, back injuries, neck injuries, arms, legs, feet. There was blood splattered around the collapsed structure," he said. He told The Associated Press that preliminary findings indicate that there was inadequate bracing on the obstacle called the "Diesel Dome," shown on the website for the national "Warrior Dash" race series as a 30-by-50-foot arched wooden framework. Thompson said the Diesel Dome collapsed sometime after 1 p.m. Saturday at the West Feliciana Parish Sports Park, in West Feliciana Parish about 30 miles from Baton Rouge. Thousands of competitors had climbed safely over the framework, he noted. After it fell, he said, many competitors ran around the collapsed structure; others who had medical training stopped to help. "I was climbing to the top of it when it started leaning and collapsed," nurse Brandi Taylor, of Jena, told The Advocate (http://bit.ly/2e2ZwJA ). &quo...
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