BOY KILLED WHEN WIND GUST TOSSES GIANT INFLATABLE

LINCOLN, NEB. A two-year-old Nebraska boy was killed and his sister was injured when wind tore a giant inflatable from its moorings and tossed it nine metres into the air before depositing it, with the toddler wrapped up inside, more than 30 metres away.

Caleb Acuna suffered severe head trauma in his ordeal Wednesday evening at JK’s Pumpkin Patch, just north of Lincoln. Caleb was taken off life support Thursday afternoon.

His five-year-old sister, Arra, suffered a broken arm.

The siblings were playing on the bounce pillow — similar to a bounce house, but without any walls — around 6 p.m. Wednesday when an estimated 95 km/h wind gust tore it from its moorings.

Raymond Fire Safety Officer Nick Monnier told the Lincoln Journal Star the children’s parents had just climbed off the inflatable when the wind swept it up. Monnier said Arra was thrown about 10 metres, but that the pillow folded over on top of Caleb Acuna and carried him more than 30 metres.