ANGLETON, Texas (KTRK) — Several family members were crushed as they tried to level a mobile home, killing an adult and a 17-year-old, according to the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office.
On Sunday afternoon, family members were working on the home in the 2000 block of CR 49, just east of Highway 288, when it collapsed, authorities say.
According to the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office, they got the call around 5 p.m. about the mobile home collapsing as several family members were trying to level it. Several of them were trapped underneath the house until first responders got there.
In video from SkyEye, you can see a hydraulic jack and broken cinderblocks around the home.
“They were trying to re-level a house and some of the cinder blocks broke and people are pinned under the beams,” responders said over radio dispatch. “They are still going to be pinned underneath the house until we get the …