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Friends of the teenager who fell about 15 metres through the glass ceiling of Melbourne's Block Arcade say the 18-year-old was "just exploring". Friends visiting Lucas Bruce at the Royal Melbourne Hospital said he was now talking and had been released from the intensive care unit, Seven News reported. The teenager slipped from the roof of the Collins Street location about 3pm on Wednesday. It is believed Mr Lucas lost his footing while climbing onto a ledge, falling nine metres before crashing through the glass roof, and falling another six metres before hitting the ground. A friend of Mr Lucas, Josh Dowdell, told Seven News: "He wasn't doing anything bad, just exploring. He's an adventurous kind of guy". "He's got broken feet, broken legs, broken pelvis, broken wrist and fractured spine. “I hope he gets better. I hope he can walk and run again. That's the main thing.” Paramedics also treated a woman aged in her 60s, who was injured by a piece of falling glass. It is believed Mr Lucas took an internal lift to the Block Arcade's top floor, along with two female friends. With Caroline Zielinski and Thomas O'Byrne