The fourteen people rescued in the early hours of this Sunday from a giant swing at the Pilar Fair, in Zaragoza, will not easily forget their visit to the Valdespartera exhibition center after having stayed there suspended 18 meters high for two hours.
The event occurred after 1:30 a.m.when the attraction’s safety systems shut down its mechanism after detecting an anomaly, which left passengers hanging. 14 people at a height of 18 meters.
The Zaragoza firefighters went to the exhibition center with an automatic ladder to lower people using the vertical rescue technique.
Following the protocol provided for this type of action, the firefighters placed harnesses and anchors on all the rescued people to safely transfer the attraction to the automatic ladder then proceed with the descent one by one, respecting all the standards established for work at height. .
It turns out that in the days preceding the Pilar Festival in Zaragoza, the firefighters had already practiced this type of rescue with ladders. Technicians are working to find out What were the causes of the incident?.
