Reba McEntire Rescued from Crumbling Building

Yeah, I know it sounds like something you’d read in a comic book, with Clark Kent dashing into a phone booth and emerging in a spandex suit to save a damsel in distress, but in a slightly less dramatic fashion, that’s what happened when Reba McEntire and a crew were touring a 100-year-old abandoned building in her home state of Oklahoma, and the structure started giving way around them—specifically the staircase—which left the parties stuck on the upper floors of the unstable structure.
Reba was in Atoka, Oklahoma on Tuesday (9-14), which is about 16 miles south of her hometown of Chockie, checking out the old brick building for possible use in an undisclosed future project. Reba was there with her current beau Rex Linn and a crew of about seven. As some members of the party were descending the staircase leading from the second to third floor, it collapsed, and caused the staircase between the second and first floor to collapse as well. One person was injured in the collapse, and was taken to a local hospital in nearby Durant with minor injuries.
The building was currently under renovations, but was believed to be more stable than it was when the crew entered it. The fire department had to be called to rescue Reba and her crew from the respective floors they were stuck on. Ladders were deployed, and the 66-year-old country star scampered out of a 2nd story window before any more of the structure could give way.
We’re not sure why Reba was in the building, whether she was perhaps scoping it out for an upcoming video or some other production, or perhaps to purchase it. A man named Coby Scherrill was also part of the touring party, and he’s the Vice President of Marketing at the FirstBank in Atoka. The good news is, everybody’s okay.
Reba McEntire is releasing a new triple album of some of her older songs done anew called Revived Remixed Revisited on October 8th.
Close call for @reba in Atoka, Oklahoma Tuesday (9/14/21) Sure glad she and boyfriend Rex Linn are ok!
— Lisanne Anderson (@Lisanne2016_) September 15, 2021
While touring an old building, a staircase collapsed. They were among seven people inside. Atoka’s finest came to the rescue.
No one hurt, just some bumps and bruises. pic.twitter.com/ppLhQOLDuA
September 15, 2021 @ 12:04 pm
may be me n Reba could find a burned out van n do a lil settlin down
September 16, 2021 @ 12:40 am
You alright, Dirty Dale ?
September 16, 2021 @ 2:18 pm
I’m a picture of strength and grace and beauty
And you yur just a fool in a comment section thread
September 16, 2021 @ 4:03 pm
Well that surely ended up awkward.
September 15, 2021 @ 12:56 pm
She ain’t goin’ out like that!
September 15, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
She’s a Survivor lmao
September 15, 2021 @ 2:29 pm
Yes, there is life out there
September 15, 2021 @ 3:50 pm
ohhhh oooo Little Rock
September 15, 2021 @ 4:43 pm
I am so glad reba and her crew are ok. But I hope they learned their lesson. NEVER GO INTO AN ABANDONED BUILDING, IT IS ABANDONED FOR A REASON!!!! WHY ? Why did they go in there? Well, I am just glad everyone is safe and I am looking very forward to her new triple cd. I like that you get more music for your buck , and hopefully all killers and no fillers, so here is hoping for a great album.
September 15, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
I will also say. If this was for a future project, then why not call building inspectors and have the place checked out before going into a 100 year old abandoned building. I know they were excited about doing this project, but they went in this place, not worried that this place could be worn down and dangerous? They were a little careless and it almost cost them some serious if not fatal injuries. Well, I am glad they are ok, but next time Reba. Use caution before jumping head first into something that may not be safe.
September 15, 2021 @ 5:56 pm
Her party was in a business meeting with the group renovating the building. I’m working on a building restoration right now, we have random walk-throughs by business people just like any other building site. Nobody as interesting as Reba, but thankfully nothing as “interesting” as a stairway collapse has happened either! Glad nobody was hurt!
September 15, 2021 @ 6:26 pm
Then I blame the people renovating the building. They should have done a better job in making sure the building was safe. Reba and her crew could have been seriously hurt or worse killed. I am just glad they are ok.
September 16, 2021 @ 6:50 am
Maybe you can take part in a class action lawsuit for your trauma?
September 16, 2021 @ 11:11 am
No trauma, I just care about people’s lives. I was not talking to you anyway. I am not going back and forth with you. Get a hobby, just not anything involving the use of canned paint or wood glue, as some type of fumes have already fried you brain cells.
September 16, 2021 @ 6:55 am
Maybe we could upholster the world with foam.
September 15, 2021 @ 9:55 pm
Is this the same Rex Linn who’s appeared in several great 90’s films like Cliffhanger, Tin Cup, Breakdown, etc? If so, cool! Glad Reba and everyone else is ok! Can’t imagine how scary that must’ve been.
September 15, 2021 @ 10:10 pm
I wonder what did she say in a moment like this.
September 16, 2021 @ 1:02 pm
Lol good one strait country.
September 16, 2021 @ 2:24 am
Reba knows how to promote a new album…
Next: Crumbling Buildings – The Musical, the Netflix series, Young & Crumbling – the daytime soap, Crumbling – the fragrance, Crumbling Burger chain, Crumbling the fashion line…oh the possibilities.
September 16, 2021 @ 3:38 am
Blake Shelton has his restaurant/bar group, Toby Keith has his restaurant/bar group, Ree Drummond has her Pioneer Woman empire, so it makes sense that Oklahoma native Reba might start up something of her own, and what better place to do it than by renovating a 100 year old building in a town near her home? Kudos to her for potentially doing this project to bring some prosperity and revenue to her part of the state, but it must be said that maybe she should not have gone into the building until it was completely safe to do so. I will be watching to see what she does with much interest.
September 16, 2021 @ 6:21 am
I couldn’t care less.
September 16, 2021 @ 6:26 am
The building is mainstream country music.
September 16, 2021 @ 12:02 pm
Reba should have known better than to trust Barbra Jean, Brock, and Van with refurbishment.
September 19, 2021 @ 12:23 am
I have to make a comment which usually I don’t but certain posts are a little too forward and or opinionated considering it was an accident and thankfully no one was hurt!! I imagine it shook everyone up and until you are faced with a scenario that comes about with no warning or expectancy than maybe you should think before speaking on the behalf of what should have been done or the individual should or should not have been doing. You don’t know if the building had or had not been walked through prior to Reba’s group viewing the interior of the building. And I doubt anyone would intentionally send anyone into a unstable or dangerous structure intentionally with the hopes that something dangerous will happen!!! It’s just a fluke accident and maybe consider the whole situation and everything that most likely was done prior to Reba going into the building. This was by the sounds of it an unfortunate act of god nothing as a result of someone’s negligence.
December 11, 2021 @ 6:48 pm
She is the best helps everyone that walk in path she a big heart I ???? that lady with all my ❤️