He took the fall so they didn’t have to.
Carnivals and fairs offer a lot of fun with their various games, prizes, and rides. It’s a fun place to be with family and friends.
But sometimes, it also becomes a traumatizing experience. While the rides are thrilling, some of them might not function the way we want them to. Luckily for some, there are those who will not think twice to help someone in need.
We would just like to warn readers that the video and photos may contain disturbing images.
It was a tense moment when a Ferris wheel malfunctioned mid-ride.
The tense moment was caught on tape as it happened at a North Carolina fair. In the video, you can hear the worried cries of the people as they watched the brightly lit ride.
The people can only hold their breath as one of the gondolas tilted to the side. The Central Carolina Fair had to temporarily shut down the ride and on their statement, they shared that the operator “followed safety procedures to safely unload all passengers.”
The witness described the scene to the news outlet.
Brittney Smith, 28, said that there were two boys holding onto each other and were “trying to protect one another from falling out.”
Then, the situation grew tenser when one of the employees did the unthinkable. He stood at the base of the ride to ready himself for the climb.
Then, the employee started climbing rail by rail just to reach the kids on time. The climb was precarious as he doesn’t have any safety harness and the bars he was stepping on was not meant to be climbed.
Despite the odds, he reached the gondola.
The kids inside were so terrified. Albert Irwin, the said employee who climbed the ride, shared the situation with Inside Edition.
“One of them kept saying, ‘I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.’” He said, describing the desperation of the situation, “And the whole time I’m up there, I’m just thinking, I’m just talking to them like ‘Listen, you’re not going to die.”
Irwin dislodged the gondola from the point where it was stuck. Then, as he finally released the cabin with the kids, he found himself in danger.
The gondola swung down and sent Irwin plummeting down.
He tried to grab onto the bars on the way down but to no avail. He landed on one of the gondolas below, then rolled further down.
He fell to the base of the ride where other people quickly attended to him. Irwin stood up. He was obviously dazed and rattled but otherwise unharmed.
He only suffered a broken finger.
Meanwhile, the children were reunited with their parents.
“Everyone was OK for the most part. I think maybe the little boys probably suffered from shock,” Smith told ABC News in a telephone interview Saturday. “They were pretty shaken.”
The ride was restored to “proper working condition” but the parents of said kids refused to put their children in such a ride ever again.
Watch how a fair employee made a daring rescue when a Ferris wheel malfunctioned.
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