NEW YORK — Five children were hospitalized — one with a broken leg — Tuesday after the massive blow-up slide they were playing on at a Long Island park suddenly deflated during a school field trip, Suffolk County police said.
About 14 students from Lafrancis Hardiman Elementary School were on the slide in Wyandanch Park when it suddenly lost all its air and toppled over about 9:45 a.m., cops and school officials said.
The children, all between 6 and 7 years old, were sent toppling onto the grass.
The children were attending an end-of-year field trip, officials said.
Medics took five of the children to area hospitals, a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County Police Department said. One of the hospitalized children suffered a broken leg, police said. The other four kids had minor injuries.
“We recognize this is a very scary event witnessed by our young scholars, staff, and families and we are deeply concerned about how this could have happened,” Wyandanch Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gina Talbert said in a statement. “The district has immediately initiated a thorough investigation, including working with the company who provided the inflatables, into the cause of this situation.”
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