Six people injured by falling ice at Super Bowl venue
DALLAS, Texas — Six people were taken to hospital Friday after they were struck by ice falling off the roof of Cowboys Stadium, the venue of Sunday's Super Bowl, a National…
DALLAS, Texas — Six people were taken to hospital Friday after they were struck by ice falling off the roof of Cowboys Stadium, the venue of Sunday's Super Bowl, a National Football League spokesman said.The six were taken to different hospitals and the two most seriously injured were in stable condition, said Michael Signora, the NFL's vice president of communications said in a joint statement with the Arlington Fire Department."Melting ice and snow on the Cowboys Stadium roof slid onto several plaza areas earlier today," Signora said."The snow on the roof is in the process of being cleared away in preparation for Sunday's Super Bowl."It is believed most of those injured were workers trying to get the stadium ready for Sunday's game.The Dallas-Fort Worth area was hammered with back-to-back winter storms this week which brought ice and bone-chilling winds Tuesday then dumped six inches (15 centimeters) of snow overnight on Friday.Signora said a concession tent outside the stadium also was damaged by falling snow and ice but no one was hurt in that incident."The area where the snow and ice fell has been cordoned off and people are not allowed to walk through that location," the joint statement said.The 1.2 billion dollar stadium, located just outside of Dallas, is where the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will meet in Super Bowl 45 on Sunday, when more than 100,000 people are expected to converge for the spectacle.Ice and snow have been falling throughout the day from the roof of the stadium, billed as the tallest domed stadium in the world."When the ice falls, it can drop about 75 feet away from the stadium. You can't tell where it is going to hit," Arlington Fire Department spokesman Pedro Arevalo told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said earlier Friday that severe weather would have no impact on the annual football extravaganza."We have had a winter to remember and some say forget and it happened here in north Texas," he told reporters. "But all of our events are go
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