{"id":40938,"date":"2025-05-01T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=40938"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:48:17","slug":"cranford-movie-theater-in-nj-evacuated-after-ceiling-collapse-no-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/cranford-movie-theater-in-nj-evacuated-after-ceiling-collapse-no-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"CRANFORD MOVIE THEATER IN NJ EVACUATED AFTER CEILING COLLAPSE; NO INJURIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"lazyload_inited alignnone size-medium wp-image-40939\" srcset=\"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater-370x246.jpg 370w, http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater-642x428.jpg 642w, http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater-590x393.jpg 590w, http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRANFORD, New Jersey (WABC) &#8212; A movie theater in New Jersey has been evacuated after a ceiling collapsed on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cranford police and fire departments responded to the Cranford Theater at 25 North Avenue West following a report of a ceiling collapse around 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say a suspended roof inside one of the theaters collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Crews immediately began a search and rescue effort and determined that all people in the theater had evacuated, according to Cranford police.<\/p>\n<p>The theater, which was open and operational at the time, had presold just two tickets for that showing, and the two moviegoers never showed.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>First responders say they know how much worse this could have been.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Had it been an event on another evening when it was at max capacity with 200-plus, it could have been a mass casualty event,&#8221; said a member of the Cranford Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>There was a concert scheduled for the same auditorium on Thursday, at the same time that the roof collapsed on Wednesday night. The theater was expecting upwards of 200 people for the event<\/p>\n<p>Now, police say the building is uninhabitable, and the cause of the collapse is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRANFORD, New Jersey (WABC) &#8212; A movie theater in New Jersey has been evacuated after a ceiling collapsed on Wednesday night. Cranford police and fire departments responded to the Cranford Theater at 25 North Avenue West following a report of a ceiling collapse around 7:30 p.m. Officials say a suspended roof inside one of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,626,714,341,89],"class_list":["post-40938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-collapse","tag-cranford-theater","tag-new-jersey","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cranford-theater.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40940,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40938\/revisions\/40940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}