Ferris wheel fire leads to at least 23 injuries at German music festival
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At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany, news agency dpa reported Sunday. The fire started in one gondola and then spread to a second one on Saturday night, police said.
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This has gotta be arson, no? I assume there's an electrical connection to lights on the gondola, but that seems relatively benign.
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My first thought was that someone lit a cigarette or joint, and something caught fire from that, but the article said no one was in the gondola that caught fire. It doesn’t make sense.
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This article says initial investigation indicates material under ride caught fire.
https://www.dw.com/en/ferri...a-69973586
Bild newspaper reported that the material was likely mats, which it said could have been ignited by cigarettes, pyrotechnics or a cable fire.
Still early in the investigation though.
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