The front stairs of a house at Hawthorne collapsed during Halloween trick-or-treating. Picture: Marc Robertson Source: The Courier-Mail
The front stairs of a house at Hawthorne that collapsed during Halloween trick-or-treating. Picture: Marc Robertson Source: The Courier-Mail
A GROUP of trick-or-treaters received the fright of their life after a set of wooden stairs suddenly fell away at a two-storey house in Brisbane's east last night.
About 10 children - aged between six and 15 years old - had stopped in at the two-storey Queenslander on Amy Street at Hawthorne about 7.45pm, the third home on their Halloween route.
The group said they were standing on the stairs and began to make their way down when the structure suddenly fell away from the porch, sending the children tumbling down in a heap into the garden bed three metres below.
Emergency services said the children escaped with minor injuries. A girl, 9, was driven to Mater Children's Hospital by a parent "as a precaution".
Two ambulances and a fire crew attended the scene.
Eight-year-old Tyson Smith, from Hawthorne, told The Courier-Mail he felt like he was "in a dream" when the accident happened.
Cassie Stefan, 15, who lives at Kangaroo Point, said the children were "just in shock at the moment".
"It was one of our first houses. We were on the stairs when they started coming down under us and all got pushed down the bottom," she said.
"Some people hit their heads...while another little girl was at the bottom of the pile and started crying so she was rushed to hospital."
Senior Sergeant Ian Cameron said it was "lucky no one was seriously injured."
"The kids just fell down on top of each other down into the garden bed, which was about three or three and a half metres."
He dismissed rumours the house had been recently renovated.
"We need to make some enquiries into the cause," he said.
"But it might still be difficult to say (how it happened). It might be an issue for the building authority."
The house is being rented and the owner was not available for comment.
The home on Amy St, Hawthorne. Picture: Google Street View Source: Supplied
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