INDIANAPOLIS - Hospitals across the city were busy with victims from a tragic stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair.
Ambulances rolled in to Methodist Hospital one after another. At the very same time, emergency medical personnel darted through traffic and the rain to make sure they were there when the injured arrived.
"In the blink of an eye, it was just down. You see people underneath it, trying to get out, and little kids," said Tory Ison from Franklin.
Ison, 14, arrived at Methodist in one of those ambulances, suffering from injured ribs after being struck by the stage.
"Scary. Very scary. I am very fortunate to have minor injuries," he said.
The teenager had gone to the Sugarland concert with her mother.
"A big cloud of dust came and all of the sudden, you looked up and it happened so fast. It just came down. People are running and you look back at the people underneath the stage trying to get out," said Holly Ison.
"We saw things on the stage sway and my fiancee yelled, 'Run!'," said David Riley. She looked up and saw one of the girders move and when the stage collapsed, it missed my foot by a foot and a half. Then I saw she was okay and pandemonium broke out."
Riley made the trek to the hospital to see how a friend, who wasn't so fortunate, was doing.
"They did what they could, but I am telling you, that storm came five minutes from the first time I saw the first cloud to the time the stage went down. It was that quick," he said. "It came so fast. Too little, too late. There really isn't a lot you could have done."
"People were tumbling on top of everything, trying to get out of the way, so on top of getting hit by the stage, she also got stepped on a lot," Holly Ison said. "Horrified. No words to describe it. It was something we will never forget."
