Balcony collapse sends 9 people plummeting 15 feet to rocky shore below beachfront home

Nine people have been injured after a deck suddenly collapsed at a beachfront California home, causing the victims to plummet about 15 feet onto the rocky shore below.

Nine people have been injured after a balcony suddenly collapsed at a beachfront California home, causing the victims to plummet about 15 feet onto the rocky shore below. The incident occurred at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon at a beachfront home just off of the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, according to ABC News' Los Angeles station KABC. "(There were) probably like 10 people on the back deck and we heard a crack and I literally saw all of my best friends and my girlfriend fall 15 feet to the rocks," said one man who spoke to KABC about the accident. “It’s a freak accident. Like, I don’t know, I don’t know how that happens. I don’t know how that happens. So, it is pretty cut and dry. The deck literally just gave out.” Witnesses say that the group had gathered at the home on Saturday for a birthday party when the deck collapsed.