Posted on 04/10/2017 2:51:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A wind gust sent an inflatable bounce house and slide sailing into the air over the weekend during a church carnival, injuring five children.
Springwell Church invites the community to attend its free spring carnival each year, but this year the carnival ended in tears, with church members asking for prayer.
Organizers say the inflatables were anchored with stakes and tethers, yet a strong wind gust was still able to rip them from the ground and shoot the bounce house up to 30 feet into the air, where it hit some power lines before tumbling to the ground.
Witnesses reported seeing two children fall from the inflatable structure.
Five children in all were sent to the hospital via ambulance Saturday afternoon, two with serious injuries.
As of Sunday, three children were released, while two remained hospitalized in stable condition, according to the church.
A church pastor states on Facebook, "We are saddened for those who were injured during the unfortunate accident today. We join their families in prayer for their full recovery... Please continue to pray for everyone affected."
Church members raced to stop the bounce house from continuing to roll down the busy street into oncoming traffic.
The inflatable house hit the power lines with such force that it caused a power outage for several hours.
Unfortunately, bounce house injuries are not uncommon.
Just last year a 7-year-old child was killed in England when the inflatable she was jumping in was also blown away by the wind.
In 2015, a waterspout came ashore in Florida, sending a bounce house on the beach flying through the air with kids holding on for dear life, injuring three.
And in 2014, two boys, 5 and 6, were seriously injured in New York when their bounce house was also blown away.
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I’ve been hearing more and more about these accidents. There should be a better way to stabilize and secure these bouncey houses.
We have so many bots now. They just post an article without comments.
Once upon a time, a person had a reason to post an article and gave some comments and insights and direction to the thread.
Now people are lazy.
What do they call it on the insurance claim? Act of God?
Is it time for another wave on non-anchored bouncy castles? We went through this like 10 years in Tucson, every other weekend one was going airborne because apparently the people who run those things don’t know what those ropes and anchors are for.
They’re very easy to stabilize, problem you have is crews paid to get them up fast, down fast, and up somewhere else fast, don’t like putting in the effort.
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I guess we should do away with all comments on FR since people are annoyed by the comments.
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I seriously doubt if any “bots” are posting on FreeRepublic.
I love how the church is offering nothing more than “prayers”. Um, when you failed to anchor this thing safely, you’re now responsible for paying for any medical treatment these kids needed.
It’s a simple matter of anchoring the bounce house and checking the weather report, to see if there will be windy conditions that day. If they can’t take those simple precautions, maybe they should start praying for God to give them a little common sense.
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The Russians who were posting weren’t bots, and most of them are probably gone.
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