Terrifying moment amusement ride collapses leaving five people injured at festival in Mexico
Terrifying moment as theme park collapses and five people injured after firefighters tried to free people from stalled machine at festival in Mexico
- Three minors and two firefighters were injured on Saturday when a ride on a platform crashed at a festival in the northern Mexican border town of Nogales.
- The ride, the Power Rage, was spinning in the air while 15 people each were strapped to their seats, when it suddenly stopped working
- Two firefighters had climbed a ladder to get the group to safety when the ride suddenly fell, knocking the firefighters to the ground
At least five people â including a teenage girl who stars on Mexico’s U15 softball team â were injured after an amusement park ride crashed at a fairground in the northern state of Sonora.
The shocking incident occurred Saturday night after revelers descended on the border town of Nogales to celebrate the ‘Flowers Festival’.
Bystander filmed footage captured the moment when 15 attendees were trapped in their seats in the air after the Power Surge malfunctioned and stopped spinning.
Another video shows firefighters climbing a motorcycle ladder to rescue the group.
A fire engine ladder has been set up under a ride where 15 people were trapped just before it crashed onto the platform at a festival in the northern Mexican border town of Nogales on Saturday night. Three minors and two firefighters working with the rescued were injured
The Sonora Civil Protection said operation of rides at the fairgrounds has been suspended
Xiomara FĂ©lix, a member of Mexico’s U15 national softball team, was one of three minors injured after the ride they were on malfunctioned and subsequently crashed onto the apron
A short time later, the ride suddenly collapses into the platform as the firefighters were thrown to the ground.
Xiomara FĂ©lix, a member of Mexico’s U15 softball team that won gold in April in the Americas qualifier in Peru and qualified for the inaugural Women’s U15 World Cup to be held in Tokyo in October, was treated for head, chest and and ear injury at Sonora Medical Center, Mexican news outlet Milenio reported.
FĂ©lix’s injuries were considered non-life-threatening.
Firefighter Ăngel Carpio suffered several injuries and remained hospitalized as of Sunday, the Sonora Civil Service said in a statement on Sunday.
The other firefighter, Gerardo Peralta, was diagnosed with a sprained ankle and was released from the hospital.
The Sonora Civil Protection said two firefighters were on a ladder trying to save the fair visitors when the attraction crashed
A young woman trapped on the ride before it crashed onto the platform waits for help after she was able to walk out unharmed
Dr. Gabriel LĂłpez, the medical facility’s chief surgeon, told El Universal newspaper that two other minors were treated for minor neck sprains and lower back injuries and were discharged.
Operation of all attractions at the fairgrounds has been suspended, the Sonora Civil Service said.
‘According to the exhibition organizer, the (trip) computer crashed and the emergency facilities to lower it did not work; for this reason, they decided to release the pressure from the main pistons to lower the equipment,” the agency said. âThis happened when the firefighters extended the truck ladder to reassure people.
“Rescuers were analyzing how to perform the rescue maneuver when the ride collapsed, hitting the ladder and injuring the (five) people.”