Twelve school-age children were injured at a water park in Cultus Lake on Monday morning, according to the RCMP.
“Twelve were located suffering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries,” Cpl. Carmen Kiener with the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP said on Monday.
She later confirmed that all 12 who were injured were youth.
A spokesperson for the Coquitlam School District says 10 of the injured are students from Minnekhada Middle School and that the group was there on a field trip for Grades 6 and 7.
“We have no information on the nature of the injuries or the cause at this time, as this is currently being investigated by RCMP,” the spokesperson said.
An official from Cultus Lake Waterpark said the incident happened in a queuing area at the bottom of a ride known as the Zero – 60 Raceway.
The spokesperson said the root cause of the issue has not yet been determined, but he said there was no work being done when the incident occurred.
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“There’s a queuing area at the bottom of that ride with railing and when they made contact with that, that’s where the incident occurred for a brief time,” the spokesperson said. “That’s the anomaly that they seem to be investigating right now.”
B.C. Emergency Health Services confirmed they received a call at 11:17 a.m. about the incident.
“Multiple resources including several ambulances with primary care paramedics, an ambulance and response unit with advanced care paramedics, two air ambulances with critical care paramedics, a link and referral unit, a paramedic supervisor and an area manager responded,” paramedic public information officer Brian Twaites said in a statement.
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BCEHS said that 12 patients were treated. Two were transported to hospital by air ambulance and 10 other patients were transported to hospital by ground ambulance.
BC Hydro confirmed it was an electrical issue at the park and that it originated on the “customer’s side” of the electrical service.
Chilliwack RCMP said they were called at 11:20 a.m. to the water park.
Police remain on scene as the investigation unfolds.
Officials from Technical Safety BC, which oversees water parks in the province, confirmed that safety officers have been dispatched to the site to conduct a thorough assessment.
Global News received word on Monday morning that multiple air ambulances were called to Cultus Lake Waterpark, which is closed to the public, but hosts school groups during the week as the end of the school year approaches.
The park will be closed for the next 48 hours while the investigation continues.
I see the Playstation Brigade has already shown up
Carney will blame Trump
Hey Anonmyuse…they edited the article after the first nothing burger.
Use your head.
Shouldn’t they have been in school?
Please quit being apart of the problem with this world and carefully read stuff. Also dont get all you news from one place. Like duh. Come on “Adults” your better than that. Yall can stop acting like nut jobs now.
None of you can read obviously. Bunch of nut jobs the lot of you are.
Typical Canadian news, the truth is buried out of public view behind licensing and legalese.
Garbage reporting with absolutely no details as to what actually happened. Canada is a joke, and not a funny one. I hope those injured will be okay, but we won’t find out from you morons at Glo-Bull.
And you all realize that just because someone commented doesn’t make it true facts? I could post a dozen things here and who knows if I’m full of it or not.
I do agree though that the quality of the reporting has been going downhill here. Maybe some facts would help…..
Shut them down they laying blame instead of owning up to the problem
Eby is a total failure.
When the comments have 10x the information as the article, you know you are in Canada.
What an embarassment, Amy
What about the children who had to have their hearts? Restarted from being electrocuted, and what about the kid who broke his neck and broke his arm with the bone sticking out, I’d love to know more about that because my son witnessed it and told me.
A source claiming to be onsite is saying that a power pole fell over into the water and many victims have electrical burns to their feet. This source also says that all are alive and stable but in need of treatment. I cannot confirm the accuracy of this source.
Sure would be nice to… you know… KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
Hopefully all those children are safe and not seriously injured. Will the RCMP be checking teachers phones records during the incident to make sure they were being properly supervised.