Bounce house swept up by wind kills one child and injures another

One child was killed and another injured when a bounce house was swept up by wind in Casa Grande, Arizona, in what local authorities called 'a tragic accident.” Saturday's fatality occurred after a strong gust sent the inflatable toy house “airborne into the neighboring lot' with several children playing inside, according to a statement from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. A two-year-old was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

One study of wind-related bounce house accidents found that most happened due to a few meteorological causes. Dust devils and distant thunderstorms are two common precursors. Dust devils stem from a difference in heating that causes an updraft in one area and a downdraft in another, said Jeff Masters, founder of Weather Underground and now with Yale Climate Connections. 'All you would need is a little bit of a wind gust from the side to cause that to spin, and it creates a vortex,” he said.

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