RAW VIDEO OF INCIDENT: 4 dead, a dozen injured after stage collapses at Indiana State Fair where band set to perform

Photo: Fans waiting to see Sugarland attempt to hold up the stage after high winds blew the stage over at the Indiana State Fair Grandstands, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Indianapolis. About a dozen people are reported to have injuries after the stage collapsed.



INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Four people are dead and a dozen were injured after a stage collapsed during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform.



The Indianapolis Star and WTHR reports that strong winds caused the stage rigging for the outdoor concert to collapse at the fairgrounds Saturday night in Indianapolis. Fans were trapped and injured in the incident shortly before 9 p.m. It happened before the band had taken the stage.



Details on the conditions of those injured were not immediately known.



The Star reports that thousands of concert-goers were being evacuated to a nearby building because of high winds when the rigging for the stage fell onto the track where some were seated.



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I noticed this photos in one of the newspapers carrying this news story. The Indianapolis Fire Department has a "Collapse Rescue Team"? Do they actually have a team of firefighters that go to work everyday just waiting for something to collapse? Very Strange!





UPDATE: DEAD IDENTIFIED

The Marion County Coroner's office identifies the victims as 23-year-old Alina Bigjohny of Fort Wayne, 29-year-old Christina Santiago of Chicago, and three Indianapolis residents: 42-year-old Tammy Vandam, 49-year-old Glenn Goodrich and 51-year-old Nathan Byrd. It was Byrd who died overnight.