A large-scale response was sent to a St. Laurent Boulevard restaurant on Friday afternoon following reports of a complete “ceiling failure.”
It turns out, that failure was located in just one section of the restaurant’s ceiling.
On Friday afternoon, foam ceiling tiles from a suspended ceiling and materials meant to hold those tiles up suddenly fell in one portion of the restaurant.
According to Libby Livingston, manager of Perkins Restaurant and bakery at the corner of St. Laurent Blvd. and Coventry Road, the material fell directly on three customers.
Although customers and staff were shocked, no one was seriously injured. Nevertheless, Livingston said they closed the restaurant just to be safe.
A customer who says they were sitting int he restaurant at the time the ceiling tiles fell says the incident was “very loud and very scary.”
He tweeted a picture that showed several large tiles, the railing and the wires that are meant hold the tiles up strewn across two booths.
The tweet also said the debris briefly trapped one woman under a table.
Paramedics did assess one female but she was not taken to hospital.
According to Danielle Cardinal, media relations officer with Ottawa Fire Services, there had been a miscommunication in the report of the incident, so scores of emergency response teams showed up to the restaurant, expecting to see a full ceiling collapse.
Cardinal said emergency crews were relieved when they arrived to find that the ceiling only had minor damage.
Livingston said carpenters are currently en route to assess the ceiling and she expects the restaurant to be up and running by the end of the day.
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