Visitors to Canada’s Wonderland amusement park in Vaughan, a Toronto suburb, spent 30 minutes outside on a Behemoth roller coaster gondola during the storm on Saturday.
Canada’s Wonderland said its staff began closing rides around 12:40 pm Saturday due to a intense and sudden thunder approaching the park.
However, a power outage occurred shortly after. Several rides, including a rollercoaster Behemothstop with the guests on boardexplanation by speaker Grace Peacock.
The latter ensures that employees evacuate customers as quickly and safely as possible.
The evacuation of passengers trapped in Behemoth lasted about 30 minutes, he said, but no one was hurt.
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Customers were soaked according to the video posted on TikTok by Lynn Ritchie, who was in line for the roller coaster shortly after. He did not ride when he saw the dark sky.
The gondola was under the roller coaster when it stopped, but for him to be stuck like this was his worst nightmare.
” You see them shouting. But we could not hear them, because the wind and the rain were so strong. “
Other customers, who hid like him in a souvenir shop during the storm, offered them warm clothes and dry shoes as soon as they got off the basket, he said.
Wonderland of Canada has a lightning detection system, Peacock said. The system tells us when the lightning is 8 km, 13 km and 15 km from the park. The rides are closed, thanks to this information, according to their height and their speedhe explained.
Source: Radio-Canada
