Two upstate New York boys were seriously injured after high winds lifted an inflatable “bounce house” 50 feet into the air — with them inside.
The boys, 5 and 6, were taken to Albany Medical Center following the scary Monday incident in South Glens Falls, officials said.
The younger boy broke both his arms and had facial injuries, while the 6-year-old suffered head trauma, witnesses told the Glens Falls Post-Star. One of the boys hit the asphalt and the other slammed into a parked car, authorities said.
Neighbor Taylor Seymour said high winds suddenly picked up the inflatable structure and spun it around like a tornado.
“It was like a horror movie,” Seymour told the newspaper. “It just kept going up and up. It cleared our building and the trees.”
A 10-year-old girl, who was also inside, suffered minor scrapes.
That girl’s mom said she’s grateful that her daughter was by the doors, so she fell only a short distance as soon as the structure began to lift off.
“My older daughters witnessed it and said it was just horrible,” the girl’s mom said. “A big gust of wind just blew it right off the ground with the kids in it. It’s just sickening.”
The bounce house is owned a neighbor, who set it up for local kids and it secured to the ground with stakes, according to Post-Star. But the winds were too strong.