Breaking News -- Two injured falling through skylight in Fernandina

by KEVIN TURNER

kevin.turner@mynassausun.com

A man and woman were injured after they fell three stories through a rooftop skylight to the ground floor of a downtown Fernandina Beach building early Sunday.

Steven Patrick Henderson, 32, of Yulee and Jennifer L. Lane, 43, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, climbed a fire escape on the Dickens Building at 207 N. Centre St. at about 1 a.m. Sunday, and onto the roof of the Chanderly Building at 4 N. Second St.

Fernandina Beach Police reported that they didn’t know how the couple fell through the skylight.

As they fell inside the building, they broke three stairwell banisters.

When police arrived shortly after 1 a.m., they found Henderson injured and trying to break the glass out of a door with a fire extinguisher.

Lane was taken to Shands Jacksonville by helicopter and Henderson was taken to the same hospital by ambulance.

Lane was listed in good condition this afternoon; Henderson was not listed as being in the hospital.