WATCH: Dozens are in hospital after an outdoor deck gave way at a home in Langley during a wedding celebration. Sarah MacDonald reports.

Multiple police, fire and ambulance crews converged on a residence in Langley early Friday evening after a rear deck collapsed, sending up to 40 people to hospital.

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9-1-1 calls began flooding in to emergency responders at around 5:45 p.m. after the deck collapsed in the rear of the home at 26871 58th Ave. in the community of Aldergrove, where over 100 people had gathered for a wedding celebration.

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RCMP tell Global News the injured range in age from a toddler under the age of two to the elderly.

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Up to 20 of those patients are classified as having serious injuries, most involving lower extremity injuries such as broken legs.

Between 12 and 15 patients with minor injuries were driven to hospital by relatives. Those more seriously hurt were taken by ground ambulance, with one woman medivac’d to hospital by air ambulance.

At least one person is critically injured, possibly two. No fatalities have been reported.

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Fraser Health told Global News numerous hospitals throughout the Lower Mainland were notified to prepare for an intake of patients.

Rinku Garcha, whose wedding the attendees were celebrating at the reception, said she was heartbroken the accident happened in the hours before her big day.

“I’m trying really hard not to cry,” she told Global News Friday. “It’s very hard now to know my family that means so much to me won’t be present on one of the biggest days of my life.”

Garcha said the collapse happened in a matter of seconds.

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“All of a sudden it was like a mudslide,” she said. “Everyone was on the floor screaming and crying, people were on top of each other.”

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Langley East MLA Rich Coleman arrived at the scene late Friday night to lend his support to his constituents, and said he was grateful there were no deaths.

“It sounds like everyone will heal,” he said. “There will be some broken bones, there’s no injuries that are life-threatening it appears, so I’m relieved of that.”

RCMP say they will hold the scene overnight, with inspectors to return Saturday morning.

With files from Sarah MacDonald

© 2019 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.</s>Dozens of party-goers were injured after a second-storey back deck abruptly collapsed during a wedding bash in Langley, B.C.

Emergency crews were called to a home on 268th Street shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Friday evening.

Witnesses told CTV Vancouver the back deck was filled with guests when it suddenly crashed down.

“It just collapsed on one side and all the people, they just like [went] into a slide. They just went down,” wedding guest Moninder Gill.

Officials said the deck became detached from the home and collapsed.

Police, firefighters, and the B.C. Ambulance Service responded to the scene where they found up to 40 people injured.

“There was screaming, crying, a lot of the injuries were ankle, back, knee-related,” Ford said. “People were unconscious.”

Officials said one person was airlifted to hospital in critical condition while two others were transported by ambulances. RCMP Cpl. Craig Van Herk told The Canadian Press that nearly 20 people suffered serious injuries, while 12 to 15 others were treated in hospital for minor injuries.

Amarjit Gill was on the deck when it fell, but she was unhurt. She told CTV Vancouver that she saw a 14-year-old boy with a broken leg.

It’s still unclear exactly how many guests were on the deck when it collapsed, but Van Herk said there were more than 100 people at the party.

With files from The Canadian Press</s>Some of the people injured when a deck suddenly collapsed at a wedding celebration in Langley, B.C. on Friday are in critical condition, according to police.

Authorities said nearly 40 people, including children and seniors, were hurt when the second-storey deck gave out at around 5:45 p.m. One neighbour told CTV News he heard a loud "boom" when the deck came down.

"I thought something exploded," Charles Edward Ford said. "There was screaming, crying."

On Saturday, Langley RCMP confirmed two or three of the victims suffered critical injuries, and as many as 15 were left in serious condition. Some suffered broken legs and ankles.

Police said all the other victims' injuries were all minor.

There were more than 100 celebrating at the wedding party, which was held at a private home in the 5800 block of 268 Street. There's no indication of what caused the deck to fall, but Mounties said early indications are that it wasn't the result of "any overt criminal actions."

"The details surrounding the deck collapse and the cause have yet to be determined. The primary focus to this point has been on the treatment and safety of those at the scene," Cpl. Craig van Herk said in a news release.

Ten ambulances, including an air ambulance, responded to the unfortunate incident.

Pictures from the aftermath of the incident show the deck remained intact during the collapse, with one side on the ground and the other still propped up on brick pillars.

"It just collapsed on one side and all the people, they just (started) going into a slide. They just went down," said Moninder Gill, a guest at the wedding.

RCMP officers remained at the scene of the collapse overnight, and are expected to stay there until the scene is safe.</s>Severed human feet keep washing up on shores along the US-Canada border, however…

Authorities in British Columbia, Canada, say they keep finding severed human feet washing up on shores along the US-Canada border — but insist there’s nothing suspicious about it.

The British Columbia Coroners Service on Monday appealed for help to identify a single foot that washed up in West Vancouver, at 30th Street beach, last September.

It’s not clear whether the victim went missing in the Vancouver area — oceanic tides may have just washed up the remains in that region, BC Coroners Service spokesman Andy Watson said, according to a report from CBC.</s>At least one person was rushed to hospital by Air Ambulance after a deck collapsed during a celebration in Aldergrove on Friday afternoon.

At about 5:40 p.m., a deck collapsed at a home in the 5800 block of 268th Street, where a celebration with more than 100 people was underway, said Cpl. Craig van Herk, a spokesperson for the Langley RCMP.

It’s unknown right now how many people were on the deck when it collapsed, but van Herk said one injured victim was placed in an Air Ambulance, one has been taken to hospital by ground ambulance, and more ambulances were on scene to help with other injuries.

Langley RCMP, Township firefighters, and BC Ambulance paramedics were tending to the injured.

There were multiple 9-1-1 calls in the wake of the collapse and first responders rushed to the home, van Herk said.

There’s no indication yet why the deck collapsed.

“First and foremost, everyone on scene is trying to look after the people side of things,” van Herk said.

Investigators will look into questions of the cause after the injured are seen to, van Herk said.</s>COLUMBIA, Ill. (KMOV.com) – One person is dead after a massive house fire in Columbia, Illinois.

A home in the 7150 block of Summit View Dr. in Columbia caught fire about 3:00 a.m. Thursday.

Shortly before 6:30 a.m., while crews were still on scene, firefighters told News 4 one person and two dogs was unaccounted for. Just over an hour later, the Columbia Fire Department said one person had died as a result of the fire.

Several fire departments were on scene battling the fire.

A fire official told News 4 they are looking into whether a lightning strike sparked the fire.

This is a developing story. News 4 will update this story as we learn more.</s>RCMP say several people have been injured after a deck collapsed at a home in Langley, B.C., during a celebration.

Cpl. Craig Van Heark said the detachment received several 911 calls from the 5800 block of 268th Street around 5:40 p.m. PT reporting a deck collapse with several injuries.

Upon arrival, officers found over 100 people had been celebrating and there were several injured people.

"It is a fairly serious situation. By numbers alone, there's over 100 people and a deck collapsing … significant resources remain on scene," Van Heark said.

At this point, he could not confirm the number of injuries.

Jose Vargas, a communications officer with the provincial health services authority, said 19 ground ambulances and 1 air ambulance had been sent on scene.

"The first priority right now since this is an evolving call is caring for the patients on scene," Vargas said.
A house deck collapses in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 40 people, twenty of them severely.