By Quinn Wilson
Source The Press-Enterprise
Three children were hurt at a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department event in Rancho Cucamonga when a downdraft from a helicopter that was landing nearby lifted an occupied bounce house off the ground, authorities said Monday, May 2.
The incident happened Saturday, April 30, at a Sheriff’s Department’s open house event at its Rancho Cucamonga station at 10510 Civic Center Dr., authorities said in a news release. The event included displays, food and a children’s bounce house, the Sheriff’s Department said.
As a sheriff’s aviation unit helicopter that was participating in the event was landing on the rooftop helipad nearby, a downdraft from the helicopter caused several canopies and the bounce house to lift off of the ground, authorities said. The helipad was located on top of the roof of the station’s three-story building and the bounce house was located in the station’s parking lot, said Gloria Huerta, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department.
As a result, three children were taken to a nearby hospital for examination and treatment, the Sheriff’s Department said. Another child who was inside the bounce house did not need to be taken to the hospital, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the extent of the children’s injuries were.
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