06:46: The mayor of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume announces the death of the father of the family as a result of his injuries. “Sunday afternoon when I learned that an accident had taken place in the Wonderland park in Saint-Maximin, I immediately went to the scene. I was able to immediately measure the seriousness of the situation for a dad and her little girl,” he explains on Facebook.
And to add: “A few moments before they were playing, when the inflatable structure in which they were was raised then carried away by a gust of wind and projected violently about fifty meters further. The firefighters and other rescuers arrived very quickly at the scene, but the situation was already critical when the two victims were airlifted to Marseille hospitals”.
“Nevertheless, I was hoping for a positive outcome and it was with great sadness that I learned late in the evening that the dad had not survived. How could a water park that we had accepted on the municipal territory to bring joy, happiness to children could he turn into a machine of death that struck down an entire family? This is what the ongoing investigation will tell us. I refused to communicate earlier on this subject out of decency towards the victims of this tragedy, but this evening I would like to offer my most sincere condolences to the mother present on the scene, who has shown remarkable courage, as well as to all the members of the family. All my thoughts are with them tonight”.
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SUNDAY JULY 30
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5:24 p.m .: Two people, including a child, were seriously injured this Sunday in an accident in a Wonderland Waterpark water park in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var), BFM Var learned from the department’s firefighters. Around 3 p.m., an inflatable structure blew up, carrying the two occupants who were inside.
A man and a child were in cardiorespiratory arrest, say the firefighters, before being revived by the emergency services.
Called Wonderland Waterpark, the establishment opened this summer according to its website and is located on the edge of this small Var town, located about forty kilometers from Aix-en-Provence.
