![]() If you are a carnival ride enthusiast, the Piedmont Interstate Fair has you covered. "Ring of Fire" and "No Limit" highlight rides Here are things you should experience when you plan your visit to the fair. ![]() The neon lights from the signs illuminated the sky above people walking around. 16 at 575 Fairgrounds Road, in Spartanburg.įamilies walked through the fairgrounds with children eager to get on the fast rides. The smell of carnival food and the sights and sounds of the rides and children laughing couldn't help but get you in a good mood for some fun. It was like a taste of nostalgia walking into the opening day of the Piedmont Interstate Fair on Tuesday, Oct.11. Sherry McKay, who has a contract to provide amusement rides to the Island County Fair through 2005, said she promised her late husband that if anything ever happened to him she would "keep the show going."īut, McKay said, she won't be using the Super Loop 2.View Gallery: Piedmont Interstate Fair comes to Spartanburg She said he sometimes worked on rides while they were in operation. McKay's wife, Sherry McKay, co-owner of Paradise Amusements, said her late husband had been around carnival rides for much of his life and was experienced in their maintenance. "I'm so extremely familiar with that ride, but as far as being any extra careful - this was an accident." Setting up for the Monroe fair yesterday, Hall said he wasn't taking any special precautions. "It's extremely popular with mostly older kids." Hall said that, unlike on the Super Loop 2, riders on the Ring of Fire are strapped into their seats by shoulder belts, not enclosed in cages. Nobody would work on the ride while it's running." "We would listen for the noise but not with people on the ride. "Everybody is thinking, 'Are we doing the right thing? Are we being safe?' " Hall said. Jim Hall, assistant manager of Butler Amusements, the Beaverton, Ore., company supplying amusement rides at the Evergreen State Fair, said he knew Doug McKay for a long time and was shocked that he would fix the ride while it was in motion and packed with people. ![]() L&I officials say repairing an amusement ride while it is in motion is dangerous. ![]() The accident has been called a fluke by the state Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), Island County Sheriff's Department and fair officials. The accident was witnessed by hundreds of fairgoers, including those on the ride at the time. He was dragged into the air by the ride and then fell about 40 feet, landing on an aluminum fence. The "Ring of Fire" ride at the Monroe fair is similar to and made by the same manufacturer as the "Super Loop 2" at last weekend's Island County Fair in Langley.ĭoug McKay, co-owner of Paradise Amusements of Post Falls, Idaho, was spraying lubricant on the tracks of the Super Loop 2 on Saturday while the ride was in operation when he slipped and fell. Less than a week after a man fell to his death from a circular roller coaster-like ride at a Whidbey Island fair, a similar ride will be featured today as the Evergreen State Fair opens in Monroe.Įlizabeth Grant, spokeswoman for the Monroe fair, said she's sure the accident will "be in the back of people's minds, but they'll go on (the ride) anyway." ![]()
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