A backyard bouncy house was swept away by a gust of wind on Monday, sending two little boys and a girl inside flying 50 feet into the air in upstate New York, NBC News reported.
The boys were hospitalized after falling about 20 feet from the inflatable house.
Aged 5, 6 and 10, the children fell out of the bouncy house set up in South Glens Falls, New York.
According to WNYT, the two boys were seriously injured, with one of them landing on a parked car and another falling down on asphalt. The girl was reported to have suffered minor scrapes and bruises, Huffington Post reported.
Both were in serious condition when they were airlifted to Albany Medical Center, police said. Victims' names and injuries have not been released.
A former employee of the Post-Star -- which first reported the story -- snapped a photo of the bouncy house in mid-air.
"Taylor Seymour, a resident of the apartment building where the accident occurred, said the wind picked the structure up and spun it around as if it was in a small tornado. One boy was thrown 30 or 40 feet northwest onto Ferry Boulevard, the other about 20 feet southeast, landing on the back of Seymour's car. The bounce house was at least 15 feet off the ground when the boys fell out," according to Post-Star.
"It was like a horror movie," she said. "It just kept going up and up. It cleared our building and the trees."
A nearby resident, who reportedly owned the toy and help set it up, was letting the neighborhood children play in it. According to Huffington Post, parents said it was affixed to the ground with stakes, but that the wind blew it free.
Even though there were no updates about the boys' condition on Tuesday morning, at least one of the boys was witnessed conscious and talking after the fall.
"Although the investigation is continuing, the incident is considered a tragic accident and no charges are pending," police said.
NBC affiliate WNYT reported that after the boys fell out, the bounce house continued to float in the air, eventually landing in the field behind a local school.
