McEntire had to be evacuated on a fire escape from a second-floor window on Tuesday, the affiliate told CNN KXII.
“Fortunately, no one was seriously injured,” he wrote on Twitter. “We were safely evacuated from the building thanks to the prompt response of Atoka firefighters and police departments.”
Atoka’s director of emergency management, Travis Mullins, told KXII that the stairwell from the second to the third floor collapsed, falling down the stairs from the first to the second floor and trapping people on the ground. ‘interior.
“Oh, it was pretty scary, I was worried about who was downstairs and how bad he was,” Coby Scherrill told KXII. At the time, he was touring the building with McEntire, the station reported.
“We were walking around the building and the staircase was weak, it looked weak, but we didn’t realize how weak it was until several people had lowered it and then we felt the shock and saw the stairs fall.” , he said to KXII.
Atoka, a town of about 3,000 people, is located in the southeastern part of the state and is about 45 miles from McEntire’s hometown, McAlester.