IL Firefighters Rescue Couple Trapped By Falling Ceiling

    June 10, 2020
    An Evanston couple needed help from firefighters after they were trapped when their bedroom ceiling collapsed on them while they were sleeping.

    Firefighters rescued an Illinois couple after their bedroom ceiling collapsed on them early Wednesday.

    The couple had been sleeping in their Evanston home when panels nailed to the lathe and plaster ceiling fell on them, WBBM-TV reports. Evanston fire crews responded to the home at about 2:45 a.m.

    Once at the scene, firefighters needed to pull the couple from beneath the debris. Both people only suffered scratches in the incident.

    “My head was underneath at first, I don’t know how I squeezed out,” Debbie Linder told WBBM. “It was like a blanket of ceiling.”