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She flies about eight feet in the air," Vanessa Atencio told KUSA. "All of a sudden, it picks up, and there's a girl going down the slide.

Witnesses say the bounce house was blown about 300 feet across the park before it finally came to a stop.

The most recent incident took place Saturday during the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Jamboree at a park in Littleton, Colorado.

The agency found there were an estimated 1,300 injuries in 1997 and 4,900 injuries in 2004.For the second time in less than a month, two children were injured after the "bounce house" they were playing in went airborne. In April, a boy and a girl were in bounce houses that were blown across three lanes of traffic, the AP reported.Ī Consumer Product Safety Commission report released in 2005 linked the growing popularity of inflatables with an increasing number of injuries treated at hospital emergency rooms from 1997 to 2004. In Arizona, two accidents in the Tucson area in 2011 injured four children, including sisters who were inside a bounce house in February when wind bursts tossed the ride onto a roof. One incident in New York that year left 13 in the hospital, according to the Associated Press. This is not the first time children have been injured from these toys becoming unmoored and blowing away.Īt least 10 inflatables around the country in 2011 have been toppled by winds or collapsed under too much weight, injuring more than 40 people, according to a website that tracks amusement ride accidents. Witnesses said the house had been staked to the ground, according to the police report. A 10-year-old girl was also tossed from the bounce house and suffered minor injuries, reports WNYT-TV in Albany. One boy was dropped onto a parked car and the other landed in the street.

One boy, who suffered a head injury, is in a medically induced coma, AP reports. Police said the two boys were still in the hospital Wednesday and are in stable condition, according to the Associated Press. The house reached heights of between 15 and 20 feet, the South Glens Falls Police Department said in a statement. Two boys, ages 5 and 6, in upstate New York were seriously injured Monday after an inflatable bounce house went airborne, according to police.