The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to pray for two children who were injured when a jumping castle they we in was blown away.
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a home near the 22000 block of N. Post Road in Paulden on Sunday after a six-year-old and seven-year-old, who were playing in a bounce house, were injured.
Although the bounce house was secured with stakes and sandbags, a dust devil was still able to pick it up and carry it about 25 feet in the air, launching it over a fence and onto a neighboring property. It continued to tumble before coming to rest 75-yards from where it was originally set up.
The 6-year-old suffered a broken leg. The 7-year-old suffered neck and back injuries as well as cuts to her face. Both were airlifted to a hospital in Phoenix. Both girls are recovering in the ICU of the Phoenix Children’s Hospital.