The collapse of the Turnagain CrossFit building in Anchorage during an event Friday evening left one person dead, and rattled a tightknit community. More than two dozen people were inside at the time.
The collapsed roof of the Turnagain CrossFit gym is seen on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. One person has been confirmed dead in the collapse of the South Anchorage gym building Friday evening, according to the Anchorage Fire Department.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise — one person asked if there had been an earthquake — and then Gatch described what happened next: The ceiling over the back half of the gym “just fell straight to the ground.”Fidler yelled for everyone to get out. Gatch grabbed her boots and ran outside. Around 35 people were inside the building at the time of the collapse, Fidler saidAssistant fire chief Alex Boyd said the Anchorage Fire Department received an initial call just before 5:30 p.m..
“As the night wore on and you looked around, you saw athletes covered, literally head to toe in debris — not because they had been trapped, but because they’d gone back in to try to help others out,” she said. “That’s when we finally saw there was another vehicle that nobody was with, and we realized whose it was,” he said.
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