Five children were injured after a jumping castle flew into the air and was blown into a neighboring fence in Sydney's west on Saturday morning. Emergency services responded to reports of injuries at Kelvin Park Drive in Bradfield just after 9:30am.
Tom Burnus, a station manager for NSW Ambulance, said they were told that up to six people were on the jumping castle. Upon arrival, paramedics treated five patients, all males aged between nine and 13 years. Four of the children were taken to the Children's Hospital at Westmead with non-life-threatening injuries and were in a stable condition.
The incident occurred at a property in Bradfield, a suburb in Sydney's west. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing in Saturday's incident, according to authorities.
This event recalls a tragic incident in December 2021 in Devonport, Tasmania, where six children were killed when a dust devil lifted a jumping castle into the air. In that case, about 40 year 5 and 6 students were participating in end-of-year activities. A gust of wind picked up the jumping castle and several zorb balls, hurling them into the air.
Rosemary Anne Gamble, who set up the jumping castle at Hillcrest Primary School in Tasmania, was found not guilty in June of failing to comply with a health and safety duty. The families of the children killed and injured in that incident launched a class action against the state of Tasmania and the jumping castle operator.
