This Saturday, at the end of the afternoon, the firefighters are working at the bottom of the Bellewaerde site.
Two firefighters’ platforms – a RED-team specializing in high-altitude rescues – as well as the park’s platform are deployed.
In question: around thirty people stuck from 5 p.m. in the “El Volador” attraction at a height of around fifteen meters.
A visitor tells us that the public is gradually being removed from the attraction with all the necessary delicate precautions.
The height of bad luck: although the weather was fine all day, the rain came and there was no protection above our heads.
Red capes are distributed to protect passengers.
A large security perimeter is deployed all around the attraction built in 2007.
Our colleagues at Het Laatste Nieuws point out that this is the second time in two weeks that the same incident has occurred, the previous one on the same attraction took place on June 17.
A complicated start to the season
2024 is definitely not the best year ever: the brand new attraction close to “El Volador”, namely “Amazonia”, was initially unable to open during the season’s inauguration.
Then was made accessible but broke down, requiring evacuation, before being closed to undergo repairs, finally running as desired for barely a month.
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