Country star Reba McEntire has to be rescued from a second-story window after stairs collapse in historic Oklahoma building

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(CNN)Country prima Reba McEntire expressed gratitude Wednesday aft she had to beryllium rescued from a historical gathering successful Atoka, Oklahoma, aft the staircase collapsed.

McEntire had to beryllium evacuated connected a occurrence ladder from a second-story model connected Tuesday, CNN affiliate KXII reported.

"Thankfully, nary 1 was earnestly injured," she wrote on Twitter. "We were safely evacuated from the gathering acknowledgment to the speedy effect from the Atoka occurrence and constabulary departments."

    The Emergency Management Director for Atoka, Travis Mullins, told KXII that the stairwell from the 2nd to the 3rd communicative collapsed, falling onto the staircase from the archetypal to the 2nd level and trapping radical inside.

      "Oh it was beauteous scary, I was disquieted astir who was downstairs and however atrocious it was," Coby Scherrill told KXII. He was touring the gathering with McEntire astatine the time, the presumption reported.

        "We were conscionable touring the gathering and the stairwell was weak, it seemed anemic but we did not recognize however anemic it was until respective radical had gone down it and past we heard the clang and saw the stairs fall," helium told KXII.

        Atoka, a metropolis of astir 3,000 people, is located successful the southeastern portion of the state, and is astir 45 miles from McEntire's location municipality of McAlester.

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