Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Sees Second Fireworks Fire This Year: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Closed for Hours
The most magical place on Earth became the scariest place Saturday night. Embers from a fireworks display started a fire on a building near the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction at Florida's Walt Disney World, a Disney spokeswoman told Fox affiliate WGHP.
Bo Jones, spokesman for the Reedy Creek Fire Department, told NBC News that the blaze broke out at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday but was quickly extinguished without damage to the structure or injuries.
"We believe fireworks fell from the Magic Kingdom fireworks show and the ash landed at the top of the attraction, catching the fake grass on fire," he said in a statement. "The fire was contained to just the grass and did not get into the building or structure."
An aerial ladder extinguished the fire in minutes, according to eyewitnesses.
Passengers who were on the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at the time of the fire were able to get off the ride safely and evacuate.
The attraction was closed for two hours before reopening at midnight.
This marks the second fire at the new Fantasyland section of the park this year. On Feb. 13, the Wishes fireworks show caused a fire when sparks fell on the artificial foliage of the Voyage of the Little Mermaid ride. Fire crews were able to put out the fire with extinguishers. No injuries were reported.
The Seven Dwarf's Mine Train opened to the public on May 28, 2014. The steel rollercoaster is themed after the 1937 film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the first animated feature film from Walt Disney. The ride is part of the Magic Kingdom park expansion called New Fantasyland.
On the ride, guests make their way across the rolling stone bridges and through a forest to the Seven Dwarfs' cottage where they can see Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Snow White. Once aboard the mine train, riders look for gems and experience the first-of-its-kind ride system that cruises across sharp banks, swings up and down large lifts and sways around hairpin turns.
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