UNC Greensboro Students Bail When Party Brings Down Apartment Ceiling

150 people crammed a unit at the Block 43 Apartments in Greensboro, cracking the ceiling of the apartment below, displacing the residents, and causing the fire department to condemned the upstairs and downstairs units. Occupants heard loud music and stomping before a light fixture fell and the ceiling caved in around the kitchen. “They’re having a party and they’re like stomping and it’s breaking,” said a 911 caller. “It’s like dangerous.”

A manager of the Greensboro Community Improvement Division reported that the apartment will need to be rebuilt. “The floor systems are not built for that high capacity of people in a small space,” Powell said. “The failures to these floor systems occurred and luckily they got them out just in time.”

“We’ve lost our home, we’ve lost our belongings, we have nowhere to go,” said Danielle Caiola, a junior at UNCG, according to a Fox 8 report. “It’s been so uncomfortable to live there and then of course right when we were starting to settle down our ceiling cracked.”