Dallas Cowboys Practice Facility Collapses

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Dallas Cowboy indoor practice facility collapses!!

Read and watch the video here

5 or 6 people were injured, none life threatening. The video is raw footage as there was a rookie camp practice in progress when the facility collapsed.
 
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4127852


IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis was among at least five people injured Saturday when the roof of the team's practice facility collapsed during a storm.

Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said four team support staff members were injured and all players and coaches were accounted for. He didn't know the extent of the injuries of the four, who he said were hospitalized.

Assistant coach Brett Maxie suffered a laceration on his leg, a source told ESPN.com's Matt Mosley.


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DeCamillis was seen putting on a neck brace and being taken out of the team's main office building on a stretcher.

Team scout Chris Hall suffered multiple arm injuries after being trapped underneath the frame, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The roof came down at about 4:30 p.m. ET during a severe thunderstorm while the team was going through the second day of a three-day rookie minicamp. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, in a TV interview from the Kentucky Derby, said 27 rookies were going through the workout.

Witnesses said lights started flickering and shaking minutes before the collapse, prompting players, coaches, staff members and reporters to vacate the building. Several people were trying to exit the facility as the roof came down.

According to the Star-Telegram, a portable toilet was blown over outside the facility and blocked an exit.

The storm was producing winds measured at 64 mph just before it struck the Cowboys facility, said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Harris in Fort Worth.

A witness on the scene told Mosley that players and coaches raced back into the facility to try and locate people that may have been trapped. Coach Wade Phillips directed emergency crews to at least three trapped people, according to the Star-Telegram.

Dalrymple said rescue personnel were still going through the debris to make sure everyone was accounted for.

Irving fire-rescue officials ordered all reporters and team personnel away from the immediate area.

The roof is a large air-supported canopy with aluminum frames covering a regulation 100-yard football field.

Power was out at the Valley Ranch facility.
 
12 injuries now --- nothing life-threatening.

The place was flattened. One TV reporter had his camera on recording --- caught the top of the tent ripping open.
 
Latest news report is that one of the coaches that was injured has a broken back! Several of the others just have minor cuts and bruises.
 
I'm going to add the first part of the update from the first link above.

"IRVING — Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis broke his back and 11 others were injured when winds just shy of tornado strength ripped through the roof of the team's indoor practice facility during a rookie minicamp Saturday.

Former coach Dan Reeves, DeCamillis' father-in-law, said the first-year Dallas coach has a couple of broken vertebrae in his lower back.

"They say he's lucky not to be paralyzed," said Reeves, adding that DeCamillis probably will have surgery. The coach was seen being removed on a stretcher wearing a neck brace.

No players were seriously injured in the collapse, but three other Cowboys personnel were hurt: assistant athletic trainer Greg Gaither, who suffered a broken leg; college scouting coordinator Chris Hall; whose arm was injured; and scouting assistant Rich Behm, who was in critical condition with unspecified injuries. All remained hospitalized Saturday night."

That had to be terrifying. I hope Coach Decamillis heals well.
 
the FOX videographer actualy handed off his camera to a player (never stopped recording), be had 9 stiches put in his hand, they showed it on the video.
 
Does this mean they aren't "God's Team" anymore? I always wondered if the number of convicts on the team would work against them...
 
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