

The ride's train is rocked back and forth at a generous rate, as not to put too much stress on the tire drive. The rim is run through a shock-absorbent tire drive, which drives the train around the loop. On one section of the rim the train is snugly placed. In this boxed track is a multiple-piece pivoted end-rim (inertia ring) with wheel dogs attached settled within this boxed track.
RING OF FIRE FAIR RIDE PORTABLE
The ride structure is a large steel boxed-track loop attached to a concrete base or portable trailer with supporting outriggers and steel cables. Each ride provides a similar ride experience, but are larger than each other in terms of both size and capacity. Larson makes three different versions of the ride: The Fire Ball, the 22M Giant Loop, and the Giga Loop 100ft. This installation is now located at La Ronde as Chaos. This is Larson International's 22M Giant Loop, a larger version of the Fire Ball. Though the ride share similarities with that of a roller coaster, notably having a train which rolls along a track, it is often not considered as such since the ride is powered by motorized drive tires, and not by gravity like a roller coaster.Įl Diablo at Six Flags Great Adventure. Some owners of the older Ring of Fire rides have had the caged train replaced with the new Fire Ball train. In 1998, Larson introduced a new roofless, open-air train with over-the-shoulder harnesses and seats that sit riders face-to-face with each other. Older models of this ride type have trains with each half of the train facing opposite directions, with a protective metal cage and a rigid lap bar restraining the riders. The ride features a roller coaster-type train which rolls along a ring-shaped track, turning riders upside down at the top of the loop.
RING OF FIRE FAIR RIDE SERIES
It replaced a series of Larson rides manufactured prior to its unveiling, the first being the Super Loops and the second being the Ring of Fire. That ride was closed for inspection and repair.Ĭrandon is in northern Wisconsin, about 30 miles east of Rhinelander.The Fire Ball is a type of amusement ride manufactured by Larson International.
RING OF FIRE FAIR RIDE CRACK
The ordeal came two days after a father spotted a crack in a steel support pillar at the top of a roller coaster at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ten fire vehicles, nine ambulances and 50 people from three counties helped rescue the passengers, the fire department said.

Nine patients were treated by emergency medical services and one person was transported to Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital by ambulance, according to the release. “Families are being reunited with people as they come down off of the ride from the rescuers and everybody seems to be doing as best as they can, given the circumstances,” Cook told WJFW. – more than three hours after the ride stalled. The last passenger reached the ground at 5:01 p.m.

CT, about two hours after emergency crews were dispatched, the news release said.

The first passenger got back to solid ground at 3:20 p.m. Emergency personnel stand by as eight people are removed from a stuck roller coaster in Crandon, Wisconsin.
