Hartford civic center roof collapsed 1978 in the early morning hours of jan.
Hartford civic center roof collapse.
Ten days of bad weather coupled with a snowstorm the prior evening were responsible for the weighty accumulation of snow and ice that led to the rooftop s failure.
18 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center collapsed just hours after a college basketball double header.
At 4 19am on january 18 1978 downtown hartford narrowly missed being the site of one of the deadliest disasters in american history when the entire roof of the hartford civic center arena covering an area of nearly 2 5 acres and weighing 1 400 tons suddenly collapsed onto a coliseum of 10 000 empty seats.
18 1978 the roof fell in under the weight of snow and ice.
Forty years ago on jan.
Civic center collapse hartford 1978 jeff dunshee sad city hartford on january 18 1978 at about 4 20 in the morning the hartford civic center roof collapsed.
On january 17 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center arena collapsed.
Community corner hartford civic center roof collapsed 40 years ago in the early morning hours of jan.
Community corner on this date.
Only six hours earlier five thousand people had been in the arena watching a basketball game.
On january 17 1978 a tuesday evening 4 746 basketball fans watched the uconn men s team upset umass 56 49 at the hartford civic center.
On january 18 1978 the civic center roof collapsed six hours after the university of connecticut defeated the university of massachusetts 56 49.
At approximately 4 15 a m.
It collapsed into the arena below with a.
About six hours later in the early morning of january 18 the roof of the sports coliseum collapsed onto 10 000 empty stadium seats.
The arena roof was a 90 by 110 meter space frame levy and salvadori 1992 kaminetzky 1991 feld and carper 1997.