Two girls attending a festival were injured after they were thrown from a Ferris wheel, officials said.
On Saturday November 1, the girls were attending the Harvest Festival in New Roads, Louisiana and decided to ride the Ferris wheel, according to WBRZ.
“I heard like a body, just like something falling, I heard a loud boom,” Madison Fields, who was attending the festival, told the broadcaster.
Once the inspection was complete, all of the rides except for the Ferris wheel were reopened.
The Harvest Festival, which began in late October, wrapped up as scheduled on November 2.
Officials reported that two girls were hurt after being thrown from a Ferris wheel during a festival.
WBRZ reports that the girls chose to ride the Ferris wheel on Saturday, November 1, while they were in New Roads, Louisiana, for the Harvest Festival.
Three girls, both under the age of thirteen, were spilled to the ground when the Ferris wheel basket tipped over, according to witnesses who told officials they witnessed the incident, according to WBRZ.
Attending the festival, Madison Fields told the broadcaster, “I heard like a body, just like something falling, I heard a loud boom.”. She suffered serious injuries after one of the two girls fell on her face. “.”.
She stated that she thinks the basket tipped because it got caught on something foreign.
She claimed, “It grabbed hold of the wires, and then it tipped over, and the two girls fell out.”.
For medical attention, both girls were taken to hospitals immediately. Officials said one of them was transported by air to a hospital in Baton Rouge.
It is unknown what condition they are in.
One of the attendees shared a video on Facebook showing police and onlookers attempting to assist one of the girls, who appears to be on the ground and in pain. The other passenger is helped out of the Ferris wheel basket by another group.
According to Eddie Jones, who recorded the video, the experience made him afraid of the rides, he told WBRZ.
He acknowledged, “I’m pretty sure I’ll never ride another Ferris wheel.”.
Later that day, Fields added, she had intended to ride the ride.
She said to WBRZ, “It was sad and upsetting, like, because, what if that could have been me?”.
Two people fell from a Ferris wheel ride at the New Roads Harvest Festival on Saturday, and the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal said in a statement that it “is actively investigating the incident.”. “,”.
The state fire marshal’s office conducted an inspection, so all of the festival’s rides were closed, according to a statement from Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux. With the exception of the Ferris wheel, all of the rides were reopened after the inspection was finished.
On November 2, the Harvest Festival, which had started in late October, concluded as planned.
