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 Eight students rescued after being stuck at top of rollercoaster for hours in Texas
05/29/26 01:52 PM
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Eight students rescued after being stuck at top of rollercoaster for hours in Texas.
Guardian staff
Fri 29 May 2026 10.12 EDT
Group was unharmed after dangling for almost four hours on ride that malfunctioned at Pleasure Pier in Galveston.
Eight students were rescued unharmed after dangling for hours at the top of a rollercoaster ride that became stuck in Texas.
Pictures and news footage of the incident showed a rollercoaster car stalled at the peak of a huge almost vertical drop on the Iron Shark rollercoaster overlooking the Gulf of Mexico at the Pleasure Pier in Galveston.
The eight young people – all students of two schools in nearby Houston – spent almost four hours stranded in the car, feet dangling in mid-air in the baking hot sun as local emergency personnel sought to rescue them.
Eventually, firefighters extended a huge rescue ladder up to the students and, using harnesses, extricated them from the rollercoaster car and brought them back to the ground by allowing them to climb down the ladder to safety.….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/galveston-texas-rollercoaster-rescue
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