Nik Wallenda involved in Florida circus high-wire fall which left 5 injured

Acrobat Nik Wallenda was rehearsing an eight-person pyramid stunt on the high wire at a Florida circus when five performers fell from about 20 to 25 feet (6-7.5 meters) on Wednesday, authorities said.Wallenda was not injured, but five people were hospitalized with injuries from the accident that occurred during a practice of the final act for Circus Sarasota, said Pedro Reis, CEO of the Circus Arts Conservatory presenting the show.READ MORE: Erendira Wallenda dazzles with high-flying aerial stunt show “Accidents do happen as you know,” he told reporters at a news conference, noting that no one was killed or crippled.

“The show must go on.”

He said one performer appeared to have lost his balance on the high-wire. Wallenda was anchoring the rear of the pyramid and did not fall.Five performers were transported to hospitals, Sarasota County Fire Chief Michael Regnier said.WATCH: Daredevil Nik Wallenda returned to the high- wire one day after escaping an accident that hospitalized five fellow acrobats Wallenda’s feats have included high-wire walks above Niagara Falls, between two Chicago skyscrapers while blindfolded and across Arizona’s Grand Canyon.Wallenda, the self-proclaimed “King of the High Wire,” is part of the seventh generation of the famed Flying Wallenda family of acrobats. His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, slipped and fell to his death from a high wire in Puerto Rico in 1978.