Elks Lodge building collapse
Casey, R.; Christy, J.; Ellis, D.; Wade, J.
Emergency Medical Services 35(12): 185-188; 193
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-6575 PMID: 17190333 Document Number: 597044
Of the 50 patients we anticipated, we evaluated 14 victims, two firefighters and two people in the crowd who developed anxiety-related symptoms in reaction to the incident. Forty-eight people escaped the building in various ways, with the most amazing being when rubble created a hole in the wall that led to a stairwell where people were able to get out. We transported 11 patients to the local hospital, four were flown to trauma centers in Kansas City, and four refused to be transported. Of those four, one later went to the ED, where he was diagnosed as having an AMI and was flown to a cardiac center in Kansas City.