Survivor of Morbid Angel roof collapse describes ordeal of being trapped
survived the roof collapse at Morbid Angel’s Illinois gig last week have described the ordeal of being trapped and then rescued.Just after 7:45pm last Friday evening (March 31), severe storm conditions caused the roof at the Apollo Theatre – a century-old venue in Belvidere, Illinois – to cave in on itself, killing one man, Fred Livingston Jr, and injuring a further 40 concertgoers.Speaking to CBS 2, Daniel Barac described the terrifying incident in an interview conducted from his hotel room in Madison, Wisconsin.“I heard a big crack, and then I started running – and then that’s when the whole roof came down on me and other people,” he said.“It kind of hurt, but then once I was stuck under there, then it really hurt — because I was just trapped underneath all this heavy debris in rubble and old bricks, and the old roof,” he added. “I could still see through like a little space in the debris, and I could still stick my hand out.