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Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Moviegoer yells ‘Run!' before ceiling collapses in 100-year-old cinema, WA video shows
Moviegoers heard noises before the ceiling collapsed at a historic cinema in Washington, news outlets and fire officials said. The incident happened at about 8 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Liberty Cinema, the Wenatchee Valley Firefighters, Local 453, said in a Facebook post. Sun Basin Theatres, which owns the cinema, did not immediately respond to McClatchy News' request for comment Feb. 28. 'They heard some pops and cracking and the gentleman stood up and took a peek,' Wenatchee Valley Fire Department Battalion Chief Cam Phillips told KING-TV. '(He) walked up toward the screen and as he looked up, he said, 'Run!'' A video shows debris from the ceiling covering movie theater seats. At approximately 8 PM, Wenatchee Valley firefighters responded to a reported ceiling collapse at Liberty Cinema. Two... Posted by Wenatchee Valley Firefighters, Local 453 on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Fire officials said no one was injured in the collapse, but the incident is still under investigation. The two guests were watching 'Captain America: Brave New World,' KOMO reported. 'Talk about an interactive movie experience... just not the kind you want!' the fire agency said. Liberty Cinema opened in 1919 and has been entertaining the community for over a 100 years. The movie theater is listed as 'temporarily closed' on Google. Wenatchee is about a 150-mile drive east from Seattle. Man breaks into hotel room, shoots pregnant woman and kills her fiancé, Florida cops say 64-year-old woman walking with cane is gunned down in street, Pennsylvania cops say Odd burials suggest distant travelers met their end on France barrier island. See them
New York Times
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Theater Ceiling Collapses During ‘Captain America' Screening in Washington State
Two people watching 'Captain America: Brave New World' alone in a movie theater in Wenatchee, Wash., on Tuesday night began hearing strange creaking and moaning. In a film where an absurd amount of furniture is smashed, dramatic final breaths abound and fighters grunt through mortal combat, the sounds fit right in. But at some point, perhaps during a quieter scene like when [redacted for spoilers], the moviegoers looked up and watched as part of the ceiling toward the front of the theater began to shift, according to Brian Brett, the chief of the Wenatchee Valley Fire Department, which responded to a collapse at Liberty Cinema a little after 8 p.m. local time. 'They started to move away from what was falling from the ceiling,' Chief Brett said in a phone call on Thursday. 'A very large section of framed-in area underneath the roof came loose and dropped into about the first three rows of seats in the old historic theater.' One of the viewers was 'struck by some debris' but was not injured, and the other person avoided the debris altogether, Chief Brett said. The two viewers declined to be interviewed or identified. Photographs from the scene showed plaster, drywall and pink insulation blanketing the front rows of the theater. Wires hung from the roof like streamers. The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear. The building is old, and asbestos might have been exposed by the collapse, Chief Brett said. Emergency responders wore full-face masks connected to air tanks to avoid breathing the air inside the theater, he added. Liberty Cinema was closed indefinitely for inspections. It is managed by Sun Basin Theatres in Wenatchee, a city of about 35,000 people nestled between the foothills of the Cascade Range and the Columbia River, about 90 miles east of Seattle. 'This location is very near and dear to our hearts and it's been a pleasure serving up popcorn to you all from this location over the decades,' Sun Basin Theatres said on Facebook. 'That's why we're taking the time to properly sort this out.' Chief Brett said he had not experienced something like this in the town's history. He was glad the two moviegoers were OK and worried about what would have happened had the theater been more crowded.
