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A North Carolina fair worker who was trying to rescue two terrified children from a broken Ferris wheel in North Carolina fell from the ride, in an incident that was captured on dramatic cellphone video.
Footage shot by a guest at the Central Carolina Fair at around 9.45pm on Friday shows the unnamed fair worker climbing up the Ferris wheel after one of the gondola cars began to tilt out of its normal position.
Two boys, five-year-old Hunter Roach and seven-year-old Carlos Kindle, were inside the faulty gondola car.
The Central Carolina Fair in Greensboro said in a statement Saturday that the worker was taken to a hospital to be treated for a broken finger. He was later released, as the station WDRB reported.