@@vicsillnorth7970 That's what I thought also. The people who had their skies on and held it in the right angle got through very fast. The one who got knocked out held his/her knees in the wrong angle and I saw what was coming... I hope he/she is OK today, but it did not look good in the video.
I can hear it now: "we'd liked to offer our customers that got hammered by the icy water cannon blast, 15% off their next visit to Beech Mountain, PLUS a Beech Mountain T-shirt and baseball cap"
Looks they they were talking over their radio (presumably to tell the operators to move the lift enough to get that person out of the spray). What else would you have them do before more more help arrived?
@@northtacoma that’s honestly the smartest idea out of all the alternatives. If you have enough man power and a board or blanket of some form strong enough to hold against that pressure, that should have been done
Those that jumped for obvious reasons, the ski resort has refused responsibility for injuries incurred from jumping. They claim no resort employee instructed them to jump. I respond saying," It is the lack of their employees reaction to the life threatening alternative, that all who were witnessing this event, felt that those stranded on the lift had to jump, do to no resort employees giving them any instructions"!
Shoot! If an employee told me to stay on the lift as I'm watching people in front of me one at a time being positioned over the water break and then the lift stops, I would feel the fool to listen to those instructions!
Anyone who jumps off a lift that is stopped is not thinking clearly. An awful situation for the ppl stuck in the hydrant flow and understandable if they jumped, but you were perfectly safe if you weren't stuck above the hydrant. before you thought it was great to risk concussion, spinal injuries, broken femur, ti/fib. No sympathies
@@theclimbingchef Watch the video. They did indeed stop the lift with people positioned over the water. Then they started it again, running several people through the freezing water and then positioning the next person over the water. This continued on where they started again positioning another. So even if the lift stopped, there was no way one would had thought it would remain stopped and they'd be the next person blasted. This video is taken by someone the water pressure blasted them off of the lift. You only see near the end and not even that.
@@theclimbingchef But they kept starting the lift back up. Again and again. People were panic because it looked deliberate to them. The VIDEO person who made this was blasted off her lift seat a few minutes earlier. So this went on and on stopping and starting the lift, blasting the people with high pressure freezing water in 5* weather. So to JUMP and brake a leg or get blasted out of your seat, brake a leg and freeze.
There's quite literally nothing they can do. Patrol was probably already notified of the issue and scattering to the place. People were trying to help if they tried to jump but once there in the water you can't do anything to help
This is incompetence of the highest order. Available resources; pads, ropes, a couple hundred people standing around to watch people die. No one thought to use these resources to get this rider being pummeled with freezing water off the lift? Seriously? Hope the mountain is well insured well and no one died. But I suppose the ski patrol had plenty of time to get out their first aid kits while they watched and did nothing.
@@powernoodle1224 But they could have. Would you want to be on that chair, in the freezing cold, being pummeled with water? Completely acceptable in your book if these people were. #Idontcareaboutanyonebutmyselfandhypothermiaisjustamythcreatedbysnowflakes
Right! Like they walked to that big black pad twice like they were going to cut it off a use it then said "oh zippy tie, forget it!" Someone was bound to have had a knife to pull a few pads off and put under them
@@TheHotskoz The amount of incomitance here is unbelievable. This should have never happened. I hope all the people lawyer up and sue the hell out of this ski resort.
@@powernoodle1224 love your mentality of "No one got seriously injured so i dont see the problem". im sure if you were stuck in a blast of freezing water for minutes youd be crying your little ass off
I actually think you could drown being stuck in that shower of water before you ever got hypothermia. Such complete incompetence from the lift operator.
Yeah they were water boarded for over a minute and a half, the water temperatures were below freezing, and after the water they had to sit there for ten minutes before reaching help. And they arrived unconscious with hypothermia and were stuck to the chair .-. Other people on the ski lift had to jump of to avoid being waterboarded next and the fall was pretty high and onto hard pavement so most broke their bones. The ski place told reports that riders got “a little wet”
I've been skiing at this mountain regularly since I was six years old and I'm 26 now. In 20 years I've never seen worse than a nasty fall until now. This is absolutely horrific. Why did they continue to move the lift along instead of stopping it until they could cut the water main? Why were Ski Patrol/EMS standing around like spectators? Why was the dangling person simpy ignored for such a long period of time? Also does it seem to anyone else like it was a handful of regular people stepping in to take control and giving the orders? Particularly the man in the camoflouge jacket? Also I know I'll get a ton of pushback for this one but had I been on the lift I would have jumped like the people in the back, a short fall like that might hurt but it's almost certainly not as severe as getting stuck in what is essentially a freezing firehose and long as you land the correct way.
Me too, would have thrown my boots off then hung my my fingertips on the edge of the chair and performed my best landing ever. But I think some folks don’t have those skills so they hedged their bets the other direction.
@@maiaheiss2991 I think part of the calculation was that they knew they had to get it done before the chairs started moving again. No time to get it perfect, or they could end up in an even worse situation.
Yikes... That guy that was stuck in the fountain for several minutes is probably turbo-dead. You can see his clothes and the chair starting to turn white as all the water on him starts to freeze (especially at 7:28). Reportedly he was left dangling for around 15 minutes after he was out of the water, and his clothes were frozen to the chair.
The chairs started moving again at 10:55, but she started getting blasted at 1:35!! Over 9 minutes and was still on the lift, soaked, frozen and shivering. That had to be the longest 10+ minutes ever.
WTF… the logical thing to do would be to stop the lift and not continue to funnel people through knowing someone had fallen off the chair. Look at that person holding onto to dear life on the leg bar (above their head). Shitty situation, which was handled very poorly by Beech staff.
That would work, but it would also mean all the people who were already sprayed wouldn't make it off the lift, and they could freeze to death. It doesn't take long to freeze to death when you're soaking wet and on an elevated position with no protection from the wind. It's truly a disaster all around.
It's all about training and this shows bad training. The Resort has also claimed they are not responsible for injuries from jumping, when to me, jumping was the only choice. What I saw was people being tortured over the high pressure freezing water, then the lift moved letting them freeze while the next person was tortured. Then left to dangle and freeze. Fearing for your life due to the lack of action, constitutes survivable measures. The resorts inability to provide safety and instruction to those exposed to harm, makes them responsible for any damage and injury to avoid the same fate. Even if you jumped and had no other issues, you should be entitled to compensation for the fear you faced to take such action!
Totally preventable and unacceptable. The ski patrol should have radioed up to the operator to stop the lift between the chairs until the valve could be shut off.
How do you prevent someone from hitting hydrant and breaking it off? Also, Maybe it was really loud, like really really loud. I’m guessing you have never been near a snow gun.
isn't that what they were doing? its not like you can just start and stop a ski lift from the same position, or have it stop exactly when you want it to. its a massive machine and just to get it going its going to move the chair a bunch of feet. then if it were to stop then it still would move forward while the machine is stopping.
Keep this video up for the guy who basically got waterboarded. I hope whoever got blasted for an extended period of time sues the hell out of this place. Shame to those ski medics for thinking this was a good idea.
My husband was there when it happen. He came down the hill and saw them stop the lift over the woman who was getting pounded. He skied down the hill within 30 seconds and screamed at the people operating the lift. “Move the fuckin lift 10 feet or someone is going to die!” It was awful. When he got back to our Airbnb he collapsed into my arms crying. It was beyond awful what happened to that woman and what he witnessed was very traumatic for him. We hope she is ok. 😭
Guess we know who wears the pants in the family. Myself I would have just walked to the nearest hydrant box and turned the water off. Not hard to find. Sucks if you have to walk up the mountain in boots... but that's my cross to bare fixing a situation instead of complaining about one.
Hi, my name is Ellie. I am the young woman in the video that you are referring to, the one who got stuck over the water. I’ve been reading a bunch of these comments, and I felt the need to create a channel in order to respond, especially to those who were there personally on sight to witness it happen. Please, tell your husband that I am alive and well. After reaching the top, I was treated on location for hypothermia, and I have some good bruising. But I was able to walk away on my own two feet about three hours after the accident. No broken bones or any other residual effects. The Lord’s hand of protection was on me in that situation, and He provided exactly the right people, like your husband, to help when they were needed. You can let your husband know that I was feeling well enough to hang out with a friend tonight, and I will even be going in to work in the morning. Much thanks to him for doing what he could in this whole situation. It’ll be a crazy testimony of life and provision that I get to tell for the rest of my life.
@@yeahtbh.161 Not at all. I just take action instead of calling for a manager. It used to be more common expectation. Now days most stand around flat footed. No idea how anything works. Everything is somebody else's responsibility.
This is absolutely horrific. What the hell were they doing running the lift after they got the first chair out of the spray? They should have stopped it! Most skiers know that you aren't supposed to unload from a stopped lift for other's safety, so they put everyone in a situation where there was no way to know what the responsible action was. I hope everyone involved pulls through.
Well after they first two were stuck in it and completely soaked you would have to get them unloaded ASAP especially in they temps... so you would have to move the chair lift alone to get people of. Sadly yes this means passing more people through it... but you really couldnt afford to hold the lift with they two up there soaked. You would have hypothermia within 5/10 minutes soaking wet in the snow.
I don’t understand why they would stop the lift with the person right above the water.. if they moved it another 10ft the person would have just gotten wet for a second instead of getting waterboarded for a few minutes. Ski patrol has a radio for a reason!
The lift almost stop everytime a person got over the water because the pressure was so powerful against the lift. I think the engine were just not able to pull the rope anymore at that point.
@@horrido666 I literally said "I think". That's suggesting and not making something off. You also can't say what you said without a trustworthy source that says otherwise.
How in the world after this were they not shut down for at least a safety inspection….and to make sure everyone knows where the pump cutoff switch is!!!…it’s clear nobody there has a clue about anything safety related. That poor guy is barely hanging in the chair…..but hey nothing to see here
No I do not I do live here though. Locals see and know things that typical tourist are not privy too. You couldn’t pay me to go up to beech right now. Not because of them but the rude nondriving tourists.
*She was frozen to the seat. The statement from Beech Mountain is simply, "The hydrant was under a loaded chair, resulting in several patrons getting wet." Infuriating. As well, I see a whole lot of nothing being done to help her for a whole lot of time.
SAME! I was with my SMALL 10 year old too. If we were hit the way the person was that got it the worst I don't know what would have happen😭! He is such a good skier too for his age. I am not even showing him this! Just watching this would make him never get on another lift. That was anxiety inducing. HOLY CRAP😳🥺🤦🏼♀️
@@stevefrazier2214 u mean the knocked out person on the lift that got blasted by a freezing hydrant that couldnt breath almost falling 25 ft. U ever been sprayed with a fire hose babe? Freezing
Man every video i’ve seen is just after i went through. my dad is in all of them. I think the girl that was sitting awkwardly after going through was the only person still being treated when i got outa there most everyone ended up just fine. Still sucked though
I have never understood why ski lifts don’t have safety systems installed on them like an emergency rope latter or release system to lower people to the ground in an emergency. We have the technology. The fact that this situation happened at all is a grotesque failure of human intelligence. I would have been trying to rally a human pyramid to get the people down or running trying to find something to deflect the spray of water, I don’t know anything besides standing around dumb founded . 🤷♀️
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The resort said they do not accept responsibility from injuries of those that jumped, because no resort employee instructed them to do so. It looked like to me there was no instructions from any employees of how to save yourself. To stay on the lift and be positioned over freezing water in freezing weather was the only other alternative. They feared for their safety and lives! Every time I've watched this it makes me so mad.
@@gmc70707 Lack of trained personal, and everything else. I bet you can trace their short comings back to the state inspectors who were under pressure to allow them to remain open for the revenue they generated. There is a history of that at amusement parks.
A few things…. What the fuck?! I hope that dude is okay… holy shit. I’m seriously worried for them. Leave it to North Carolina to come up with a tricky new water boarding technique. Hopefully this is place is owned by Vail Resorts
One thing I’ve noticed about lift incidents is the people that are supposed to help are never prepared. They need to act faster and have more resources and be ready for when something happens.
The girl in the video is okay and resting at home today! She has a black eye and bruises from the wooden part of the seat exploding out from beneath her. We're praying for her and her family! Hopefully she still wants to go with us next year!
@@ratman19731 And yeah it is scary. The frostbite blackened her face a bit, and her eye is swollen shut. If it hadn't been for her goggles she would have lost her sight.
How long does it take to get to the end of that lift ? It looks like they were already letting people back on the lift BEFORE the seriously injured person was rescued - presumably at the top of the lift ? I know, what's done is done but I'd think they'd hold the line for a bit longer.
The incompetent - seasonal / temp worker - low paid teenagers running the chairlift and manning the radios ( if they have any working at that time ) literally stopped the lift - twice - with people directly on top of the gushing high pressure water. Not kidding. These people deserve LARGE checks from the general liability carrier of this ski resort.
I've worked at ski resorts and this looked like lack of training and communication. To stop the lift for two minutes with someone being blasted with high pressure water and then leave him and the other victims there. It was cold people. All those others that got sprayed were wet and freezing too. Where were their Snow Cats to pull under the lift to rescue these people. Does anyone know what the condition is of these people is today?
For anyone underplaying this... its like getting hit with a firehose if you've ever experienced major water pressure. As you saw it could easily knock you out and with no where to go, drown you. I woulda bailed if I was that poor guy on the chair. Hopefully he's ight
I'm usually not a person calling to sue someone. But in this case I hope this resort gets sued, there have to be consequences if an incompetent resort is putting people's lives in danger like that.
@Freddy Muldoon lmao not being rude just honest. Those of us that live in this area are generally welcoming. We do get tired of the entitled attitudes that always come through. I guess you didn’t pay attention to your comment about being rude though 🤷♀️. Generally if you don’t like something you don’t need or have to go back to it just saying.
what is amazing is they didnt try to turn off the water - there is a button for shut down - coulda been bad but also better image, leaving the water running - as a snowmaker of my youth - we have E shut down for water
I've just watched that, appalled. Forget the staff/police/EMT, there's about 100 adults just standing there watching and filming, instead of taking action. Absolutely pathetic. "Let's stand around and watch a guy get killed." Wankers.
Incompetence at its finest. Shutting off a water line should be a easy procedure and something you practice. Hope the owners of this resort get sued into oblivion.
@@moondoggyJ55 as a person working with snow making, I know that proper maintained high pressure pipes won't burst. It's just a matter of shutting of the pumps.
@@moondoggyJ55 Yep, water hammer is real. getting the maintenance people there, turning the valve takes time. I am not sure what type of system they have but even putting the pumps offline you still have water in the line that that is 1ft elevation = 0.47 psi. Those suggesting parking a snowmobile on it or covering it with clothes - lol..
@@elyhim are you saying you think the pressure would flip a snowmobile? That person was stuck in the water stream for 2 full minutes. I would think trying anything would be better than nothing. Snowmobile weighs 500lbs. You think that pipe is flinging it to the moon? Is be slightly worried about debris being turned into a projectile.
I was there, craziest thing I’ve seen in my life. Keep in mind that it was right around 15 degrees Fahrenheit at that time today. I really hope that person in the chair is going to be alright Edit: This occurred before the video, but the first person on the chair lift to go through the water got thrown off and fell.
@@natashamc.9520 So that makes it ok? I've seen your other comments. It confuses me why you're defending the resort and how this situation was handled me so much.
@@girlish911 it wasn’t the resorts fault that a skier hit the hydrant. Like I said freak accident, guess you’re going to get mad at your vehicle if someone else hits you and causes an accident too.
@@natashamc.9520 No, I wouldn't. I just think that large corporations and resorts like this have a greater liability in "freak accidents" or events that happen on their property when they occur. Even though this was an accident like you said, the way it was handled shows a lack of preparation, inadequate training and honestly a lot of incompetency on their part. People got hurt because of it. People were put in danger. So for organizations that hold larger stakes when things occur such as this one, yeah I think there should be some form of accountability that is more than " they checked and released them later". It just baffles me sometimes when I see people fighting for these organizations in this way. It's like you're doing yourself a disservice 🤷🏿♀ idk
@@natashamc.9520 It’s the resort’s fault that their pipes are so poorly maintained that they burst when somebody runs into it. It’s also their fault for putting them underneath the ski lift. It’s especially their fault for allowing the ski lift to continue to run.
I'm not positive on this but, the brake fork on that tower was likely broken by water. They're having to bypass the 24 volt system to run the lift. That can cause problems in itself. My guess at this point I haven't heard definitively. I do hope that person survived. There is word someone passed but I'm not sure on that either.
Probably not as easy/practical as I make it sound but maybe someone can invent some method to attach a ladder or boom or something to a snow plow or other type of snow vehicle. Even if they can't pluck someone off the chair they could reach and treat them with blankets etc etc.
Or attach a rope ladder to the chairs Incase someone needs to get down in an Emergency. That would’ve been helpful too for those that did end up jumping
Lift evacuation equipment exists and is present at every hill with a lift, but it takes a team to operate safely and takes a while to get everyone assembled.
@@QPatriot07 You're talking about the rope system, basically to hoist rescue personnel to the victim ? Yeah, that looks like it'd take some time with one of those. If there was only something they could use in conjunction with a snow plow --- but that's probably wishful thinking/engineering.
Message to the uploader of this video : if this is your footage please look through the comments at the probably 10 20 30 different news organizations asking you to let them use the footage for free on their channels with only a documentation of your name from your channel. Which is their Sly conniving way of getting you to legally allow them to use the footage with no compensation to you because they understand that you do not comprehend copyright and ownership rights to original footage. And so they are attempting to steal from you through your own ignorance of the possible compensation that you could get from capturing this footage. Basically they are trying to steal from you through scamming you is my point. You should immediately contact an attorney that has experience in Media copyright etc law and see if you can get someone involved in suing all of these news organizations who are probably using this footage right now without your knowledge. And also ask about the proper licensing procedures of this footage so that you can protect your rights to compensation for it. It just sickens me all of these news organizations that probably had someone in their legal department get with them social media person and ask them to ask you if they can use the footage with only a documentation of the person who obtained the footage and that's it knowing that you would not understand that you should get compensated for this.
This really pissed me off how they just let people be blasted with cold water in freezing temperatures. I felt physically sick seeing the second guy just drooping there and not moving when the finally got him out of the water. All I could think is that he was going to lose body parts to frost bite. That place needs new owners and safety personnel as well as hefty fines. Hope those who suffered sued the F out of that ski resort.
This video should be shown to all resorts as an example of how not to run a resort and how to instantly kill your business. The lack of communication is staggering. Nobody knew what to do and made the situation worse by turning the lift back on. I'm not familiar with the location of this pipe on the hill or their water/air system but it looks like the pumps were still going strong for the duration and no shutoffs were available.
The lift operator had no clue they had someone stuck over a broke water main! Once ski patrol got there they, advised the lift operator to move the lift forward. My question is why didn’t someone cut one of the pads off the chair lift post and use it to try to deflect the water while somebody was stuck above it? Dropping off a chair lift should only be done in a life or death situation! The people who done that were idiots!
This looks like what happens when you try to cut costs and operate with too few employees. The lift operator should have had clear instructions to protect the resort guests within 1 or 2 minutes of the hydrant blowing. Every segment of the lift is supposed to be monitored when in use with radio communications to ensure quick response. Bad management.
Oh my goodness I seriously hope everyone is okay, this is hard to watch. They're going to be paying big bucks for this mistake. Thousands saved on maintenance, may now cost millions in liability. Not cool Beech.
Poor Beech I hope they have good insurance obviously some massive negligence going on with mountain Ops here. The chair continuing to spin well after the pipe burst and then stopping riders above it should never happen.
holy hell. i was there literally a week ago and that place was crawling with ski patrol. that's insane and infuriating. like how does that even go on for so long. let say no radios are working. why didn't anyone go find someone. or go tell the lift operators to stop moving. where was patrol?? I hope that everyone involved makes a safe recovery and staff are taught simple communication and organization. this is wild.
I've skied there many times, there are large shut off valves nearby, can't maintenance or ski rescue shut it down? P.S. is that guy hanging from the lift dead?
Having skied for over 40 years and pretty much seen it all, this was a total failure by the patrol and lift operator. Maybe they are understaffed like most businesses these days. A classic example, at the price of the suspended skiers well being, of unprepared and terrible reactive communications.
1) Someone on-site should know where the main shutoff valve is. 2) An EFV (excess flow valve) should have been in place to automatically stop the flow in this type of event. 3) The lifts can be run backwards... why didn't they do this? 4) Digging at the rupture isn't helping at all. Maybe a few snowboards could have been used to divert the spray away from lifts but the pressure is probably too much and would have created hazards to anyone attempting that.
I'm not sure how useful it'd actually be in the situation but I'd try and get as many people as possible to offer up their jackets as padding for them to jump. Yeah, you'll be cold but you won't be as cold as the people on the lift.
would probably be more dangerous to the person on the lift, the water pressure is strong enough to rip parts off of the snowmobile and send it in the direction of the person stuck on the lift
@@quinnburtenshaw4146 it's probably strong enough to straight up lift the snowmobile and throw it into the chair. If the spray is still strong enough to lift a person out of that chair like 30 feet in the air, imagine how strong it is at that base.
they were completely. they were a few seats behind my friend and I and when It was there turn to get off the lift had to be stopped and they had to be removed from their chair.
They are really good at stopping the lift as soon as someone is above the water blast and it's turning into ice very quikly.
As soon as I warm up, I'm fighting the lift operator.
I heard they got comped a free hot chocolate
It was the water pressure that stopped the lift.
Am sure a white supremacist is getting off on doing just that.
@@vicsillnorth7970 That's what I thought also. The people who had their skies on and held it in the right angle got through very fast. The one who got knocked out held his/her knees in the wrong angle and I saw what was coming... I hope he/she is OK today, but it did not look good in the video.
I can hear it now: "we'd liked to offer our customers that got hammered by the icy water cannon blast, 15% off their next visit to Beech Mountain, PLUS a Beech Mountain T-shirt and baseball cap"
Lol they're getting 92% ownership of that place
Don’t forget the voucher for a free meal
The crazy part is I don’t even think they offered that!
I'd be surprised if they were generous enough to throw in the baseball cap
Bro 😂😂
That ski patrolman is doing a good job of just standing there.
Looks they they were talking over their radio (presumably to tell the operators to move the lift enough to get that person out of the spray). What else would you have them do before more more help arrived?
@@QPatriot07 maybe try to deflect the damn ice canon??
Ski patrol left with victim that hit the hydrant.
@@northtacoma that’s honestly the smartest idea out of all the alternatives. If you have enough man power and a board or blanket of some form strong enough to hold against that pressure, that should have been done
@Red Phantom we don’t know if he was telling them the correct things and they just weren’t doing them
I love how it stops DIRECTLY above the water . TWICE!
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I was here when this happened. That was insane and I have no idea what Ski Patrol or the lift operators were thinking.
Training what training lol. Was a lift op one Year and they literally just give you a run down and leave it to a greenhorn.
@Da Vee Day! It's because they are doing this on purpose with lockdowns to make people dependent on RULERS and MASTERS.
@@Anuisgod This is quite possibly the dumbet comment Ive ever read on you tube.
@@Elektra1210 Agree. Impressive, honestly.
@@Anuisgod there's always someone...
Those that jumped for obvious reasons, the ski resort has refused responsibility for injuries incurred from jumping. They claim no resort employee instructed them to jump. I respond saying," It is the lack of their employees reaction to the life threatening alternative, that all who were witnessing this event, felt that those stranded on the lift had to jump, do to no resort employees giving them any instructions"!
Shoot! If an employee told me to stay on the lift as I'm watching people in front of me one at a time being positioned over the water break and then the lift stops, I would feel the fool to listen to those instructions!
Anyone who jumps off a lift that is stopped is not thinking clearly. An awful situation for the ppl stuck in the hydrant flow and understandable if they jumped, but you were perfectly safe if you weren't stuck above the hydrant. before you thought it was great to risk concussion, spinal injuries, broken femur, ti/fib. No sympathies
@@theclimbingchef suffocation, hypothermia, heart attack
@@theclimbingchef Watch the video. They did indeed stop the lift with people positioned over the water. Then they started it again, running several people through the freezing water and then positioning the next person over the water. This continued on where they started again positioning another. So even if the lift stopped, there was no way one would had thought it would remain stopped and they'd be the next person blasted. This video is taken by someone the water pressure blasted them off of the lift. You only see near the end and not even that.
@@theclimbingchef But they kept starting the lift back up. Again and again. People were panic because it looked deliberate to them. The VIDEO person who made this was blasted off her lift seat a few minutes earlier. So this went on and on stopping and starting the lift, blasting the people with high pressure freezing water in 5* weather. So to JUMP and brake a leg or get blasted out of your seat, brake a leg and freeze.
I'm astonished at how calm everyone is as someone is suffering like that. They all just sit around and watch
There's quite literally nothing they can do. Patrol was probably already notified of the issue and scattering to the place. People were trying to help if they tried to jump but once there in the water you can't do anything to help
There's not really anything they could do
They probably thought it was an axe deodorant presentation
@@blulikefriendlyhit1213 I feel like the only pay would be to maybe deflect the blast with one of the heavy SnoCat snow grooming machines.
Why did no one get a tarp to catch people
This is incompetence of the highest order. Available resources; pads, ropes, a couple hundred people standing around to watch people die. No one thought to use these resources to get this rider being pummeled with freezing water off the lift? Seriously? Hope the mountain is well insured well and no one died. But I suppose the ski patrol had plenty of time to get out their first aid kits while they watched and did nothing.
No one died. No one was seriously injured. #hysteria
@@powernoodle1224 But they could have. Would you want to be on that chair, in the freezing cold, being pummeled with water? Completely acceptable in your book if these people were. #Idontcareaboutanyonebutmyselfandhypothermiaisjustamythcreatedbysnowflakes
Right! Like they walked to that big black pad twice like they were going to cut it off a use it then said "oh zippy tie, forget it!" Someone was bound to have had a knife to pull a few pads off and put under them
@@TheHotskoz The amount of incomitance here is unbelievable. This should have never happened. I hope all the people lawyer up and sue the hell out of this ski resort.
@@powernoodle1224 love your mentality of "No one got seriously injured so i dont see the problem". im sure if you were stuck in a blast of freezing water for minutes youd be crying your little ass off
I actually think you could drown being stuck in that shower of water before you ever got hypothermia. Such complete incompetence from the lift operator.
Part of the problem is there's not a single "lift operator". Each station along the way can start and stop the lift.
we need some curb your enthusiasm music everytime someone else hovers above the shower of ice water.
@@alanwhite933 it’s not like power can’t be stopped. Even if they had to pull the circuit breaker then so be it
@@freddiebenson7337 And, if you want to evacuate the riders? Wouldn't you want off even if you had to endure a few seconds of spray?
Yeah they were water boarded for over a minute and a half, the water temperatures were below freezing, and after the water they had to sit there for ten minutes before reaching help. And they arrived unconscious with hypothermia and were stuck to the chair .-. Other people on the ski lift had to jump of to avoid being waterboarded next and the fall was pretty high and onto hard pavement so most broke their bones. The ski place told reports that riders got “a little wet”
I've been skiing at this mountain regularly since I was six years old and I'm 26 now. In 20 years I've never seen worse than a nasty fall until now. This is absolutely horrific. Why did they continue to move the lift along instead of stopping it until they could cut the water main? Why were Ski Patrol/EMS standing around like spectators? Why was the dangling person simpy ignored for such a long period of time?
Also does it seem to anyone else like it was a handful of regular people stepping in to take control and giving the orders? Particularly the man in the camoflouge jacket?
Also I know I'll get a ton of pushback for this one but had I been on the lift I would have jumped like the people in the back, a short fall like that might hurt but it's almost certainly not as severe as getting stuck in what is essentially a freezing firehose and long as you land the correct way.
Me too, would have thrown my boots off then hung my my fingertips on the edge of the chair and performed my best landing ever.
But I think some folks don’t have those skills so they hedged their bets the other direction.
@@maiaheiss2991 I think part of the calculation was that they knew they had to get it done before the chairs started moving again. No time to get it perfect, or they could end up in an even worse situation.
I read somewhere that the temp was -5 or something and the snow was frozen. And then the extra water freezing. Probably a hard landing
I have the exact same questions! What a catastrophic failure.
They were probably trying to offload the first people not thinking that someone would be stuck in the spray
Patrol rides right up, stands there for 3 minutes before releasing bindings? Yeh Dude! Love a man of action!
Tra'la'la'la
Yikes... That guy that was stuck in the fountain for several minutes is probably turbo-dead. You can see his clothes and the chair starting to turn white as all the water on him starts to freeze (especially at 7:28). Reportedly he was left dangling for around 15 minutes after he was out of the water, and his clothes were frozen to the chair.
5:02 you can see him move a little bit. Hopefully he made it. He remains scary silent after that one moment.
You mean the new owner of the resort...
The chairs started moving again at 10:55, but she started getting blasted at 1:35!! Over 9 minutes and was still on the lift, soaked, frozen and shivering. That had to be the longest 10+ minutes ever.
Thankfully, he's ok😩
Omfg.
This is a full send clusterf**k that will be used in EMS training for years to come.
Incredibly sad 😭
WTF… the logical thing to do would be to stop the lift and not continue to funnel people through knowing someone had fallen off the chair. Look at that person holding onto to dear life on the leg bar (above their head). Shitty situation, which was handled very poorly by Beech staff.
They just needed to drive something over top of that hydrant. So simple.
@@ShotInTheDark it was an insane amount of pressure. anything over the hydrant is ending up quite a ways in the air
@@sydosys I know, I’m a firefighter, a snow cat would easily suppress the water and divert it sideways.
That would work, but it would also mean all the people who were already sprayed wouldn't make it off the lift, and they could freeze to death. It doesn't take long to freeze to death when you're soaking wet and on an elevated position with no protection from the wind. It's truly a disaster all around.
Hope that person survives and gets fucking PAID
Beech MT. deserves a major lawsuit and the operators fired. That was the most idiotic response to an emergency I have ever witnessed
Lack of communication, response and training.
Don’t worry they got comped a free hot chocolate
@@Shaboomquisa Oh, that makes up for it, considering that's like $15.
It's all about training and this shows bad training. The Resort has also claimed they are not responsible for injuries from jumping, when to me, jumping was the only choice. What I saw was people being tortured over the high pressure freezing water, then the lift moved letting them freeze while the next person was tortured. Then left to dangle and freeze. Fearing for your life due to the lack of action, constitutes survivable measures. The resorts inability to provide safety and instruction to those exposed to harm, makes them responsible for any damage and injury to avoid the same fate. Even if you jumped and had no other issues, you should be entitled to compensation for the fear you faced to take such action!
Totally preventable and unacceptable. The ski patrol should have radioed up to the operator to stop the lift between the chairs until the valve could be shut off.
How do you prevent someone from hitting hydrant and breaking it off?
Also, Maybe it was really loud, like really really loud. I’m guessing you have never been near a snow gun.
@@stevefrazier2214 unnecessary excuse. Walk away far enough to be heard.
@@stevefrazier2214 read his comment again, carefully. It was preventable that the lift stopped with people directly able the water shooting out.
@@stevefrazier2214 completely unacceptable response to an emergency. Incompetence at gold medal level.
isn't that what they were doing? its not like you can just start and stop a ski lift from the same position, or have it stop exactly when you want it to. its a massive machine and just to get it going its going to move the chair a bunch of feet. then if it were to stop then it still would move forward while the machine is stopping.
Keep this video up for the guy who basically got waterboarded. I hope whoever got blasted for an extended period of time sues the hell out of this place. Shame to those ski medics for thinking this was a good idea.
If the last blasted guy survived, he'll own the ski place next year.
He might die so regardless they are fucked.
@@stefsot2 any word on his condition? Someone shouldve tried to pull a snowmobile close to redirect water
Dude they are all okay, they got treated and released. It was a freak incident that has never happened
@@TheMightyAgency lmao no he won’t and FYI every individual is okay
My husband was there when it happen. He came down the hill and saw them stop the lift over the woman who was getting pounded. He skied down the hill within 30 seconds and screamed at the people operating the lift. “Move the fuckin lift 10 feet or someone is going to die!” It was awful. When he got back to our Airbnb he collapsed into my arms crying. It was beyond awful what happened to that woman and what he witnessed was very traumatic for him. We hope she is ok. 😭
Guess we know who wears the pants in the family. Myself I would have just walked to the nearest hydrant box and turned the water off. Not hard to find. Sucks if you have to walk up the mountain in boots... but that's my cross to bare fixing a situation instead of complaining about one.
@@ShainAndrews ok big bicep guy
Hi, my name is Ellie. I am the young woman in the video that you are referring to, the one who got stuck over the water. I’ve been reading a bunch of these comments, and I felt the need to create a channel in order to respond, especially to those who were there personally on sight to witness it happen. Please, tell your husband that I am alive and well. After reaching the top, I was treated on location for hypothermia, and I have some good bruising. But I was able to walk away on my own two feet about three hours after the accident. No broken bones or any other residual effects. The Lord’s hand of protection was on me in that situation, and He provided exactly the right people, like your husband, to help when they were needed. You can let your husband know that I was feeling well enough to hang out with a friend tonight, and I will even be going in to work in the morning. Much thanks to him for doing what he could in this whole situation. It’ll be a crazy testimony of life and provision that I get to tell for the rest of my life.
@@yeahtbh.161 Not at all. I just take action instead of calling for a manager. It used to be more common expectation. Now days most stand around flat footed. No idea how anything works. Everything is somebody else's responsibility.
Looks like everyone present were experiencing synchronized brain farts.
That poor guy... I really hope hes ok
I'm sure he will drip dry just fine 😂
This is absolutely horrific. What the hell were they doing running the lift after they got the first chair out of the spray? They should have stopped it! Most skiers know that you aren't supposed to unload from a stopped lift for other's safety, so they put everyone in a situation where there was no way to know what the responsible action was. I hope everyone involved pulls through.
They can easily move the lift manually
I'd be spitting fumes at the operators if that were me
Well after they first two were stuck in it and completely soaked you would have to get them unloaded ASAP especially in they temps... so you would have to move the chair lift alone to get people of. Sadly yes this means passing more people through it... but you really couldnt afford to hold the lift with they two up there soaked. You would have hypothermia within 5/10 minutes soaking wet in the snow.
@@magikarpsushi1973 Good point
What’s your option?
I don’t understand why they would stop the lift with the person right above the water.. if they moved it another 10ft the person would have just gotten wet for a second instead of getting waterboarded for a few minutes. Ski patrol has a radio for a reason!
The lift almost stop everytime a person got over the water because the pressure was so powerful against the lift.
I think the engine were just not able to pull the rope anymore at that point.
@@MrGalaximus Stop making stuff up. The force from the water column was not resisting the direction of travel.
Then they keep running the lift like
@@horrido666 I literally said "I think".
That's suggesting and not making something off.
You also can't say what you said without a trustworthy source that says otherwise.
@@MrGalaximus His trustworthy source is Isaac Newton lmao
How in the world after this were they not shut down for at least a safety inspection….and to make sure everyone knows where the pump cutoff switch is!!!…it’s clear nobody there has a clue about anything safety related. That poor guy is barely hanging in the chair…..but hey nothing to see here
First off it was a freak incident, secondly everyone is okay as they were all checked out treated and released
@@natashamc.9520 lol do u work there?
No I do not I do live here though. Locals see and know things that typical tourist are not privy too. You couldn’t pay me to go up to beech right now. Not because of them but the rude nondriving tourists.
This is insane. Was on that lift 2 days prior. That’s a unimaginable fate that one person experienced if he survived
They survived. They were taken to the hospital but were ok
The person who hit the hydrant and broke it off also survived.
i'm laughing and cant help myself....
*She was frozen to the seat. The statement from Beech Mountain is simply, "The hydrant was under a loaded chair, resulting in several patrons getting wet." Infuriating. As well, I see a whole lot of nothing being done to help her for a whole lot of time.
SAME! I was with my SMALL 10 year old too. If we were hit the way the person was that got it the worst I don't know what would have happen😭! He is such a good skier too for his age. I am not even showing him this! Just watching this would make him never get on another lift. That was anxiety inducing. HOLY CRAP😳🥺🤦🏼♀️
Turning the lift back on and not turning off the pump beforehand was particularly nasty.
that water should have been shut off ASAP. some one fucked up. all it should have took was a radio call then BOOM water is off.
Why didn't the snowmakers shut the pumphouse down? Every resort I have ever worked at has a guy in the pumphouse.
GOOD THINKING BEECH... KEEP RUNNING PEOPLE THROUGH FREEZING COLD WATER!
I hope the person on the chair is okay.
The person who hit the hydrant and broke it off is probably worse off then the wet and cold person.
@@stevefrazier2214 ever heard of frostbite dude?
They’re all okay-treated and released.
@@natashamc.9520 thank you. Glad to hear that.
@@stevefrazier2214 u mean the knocked out person on the lift that got blasted by a freezing hydrant that couldnt breath almost falling 25 ft. U ever been sprayed with a fire hose babe? Freezing
I’m surprised that no one decided to try to use their snowboard to redirect the water away from the people above…
Man every video i’ve seen is just after i went through. my dad is in all of them. I think the girl that was sitting awkwardly after going through was the only person still being treated when i got outa there most everyone ended up just fine. Still sucked though
Glad you are ok. Thanks for your comment
How bad / cold was it
What about the guy that was hanging frozen off his chair for almost 10 mins ??
@@jp5067 I’d like to know as well. So sad and scary.
I have never understood why ski lifts don’t have safety systems installed on them like an emergency rope latter or release system to lower people to the ground in an emergency. We have the technology. The fact that this situation happened at all is a grotesque failure of human intelligence.
I would have been trying to rally a human pyramid to get the people down or running trying to find something to deflect the spray of water, I don’t know anything besides standing around dumb founded . 🤷♀️
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The resort said they do not accept responsibility from injuries of those that jumped, because no resort employee instructed them to do so. It looked like to me there was no instructions from any employees of how to save yourself. To stay on the lift and be positioned over freezing water in freezing weather was the only other alternative. They feared for their safety and lives! Every time I've watched this it makes me so mad.
Simone please sue their ass big!!!
Wow, that really shows the ignorance and stupidity of that ski resort 😳😵💫😵💫😵💫
@@gmc70707 Lack of trained personal, and everything else. I bet you can trace their short comings back to the state inspectors who were under pressure to allow them to remain open for the revenue they generated. There is a history of that at amusement parks.
I'm sure the resorts stupid mentality will not hold up in court if you had a judge that had some sense.
It’s immediately clear that Murika takes safety issues seriously. (7:35) This man simply turned into an icicle and to hell with it.
A few things….
What the fuck?!
I hope that dude is okay… holy shit. I’m seriously worried for them.
Leave it to North Carolina to come up with a tricky new water boarding technique.
Hopefully this is place is owned by Vail Resorts
One thing I’ve noticed about lift incidents is the people that are supposed to help are never prepared. They need to act faster and have more resources and be ready for when something happens.
The girl in the video is okay and resting at home today! She has a black eye and bruises from the wooden part of the seat exploding out from beneath her. We're praying for her and her family!
Hopefully she still wants to go with us next year!
How old was the girl? Was it the person that was stuck in the flow for about 2 minutes? So scary.
I don’t think she want to even see snow
@@ratman19731 It was longer than 2 minutes. And yes, she's in the purple coat.
@@sammybloom2688 She's strong 🙂
@@ratman19731 And yeah it is scary. The frostbite blackened her face a bit, and her eye is swollen shut. If it hadn't been for her goggles she would have lost her sight.
How long does it take to get to the end of that lift ? It looks like they were already letting people back on the lift BEFORE the seriously injured person was rescued - presumably at the top of the lift ? I know, what's done is done but I'd think they'd hold the line for a bit longer.
This looks like one of their shorter runs
It is a very long lift
Yeah, it's a long lift. 5-10 mins depending on how many people eat shit getting off of it
Christ almighty, I'm not even in that country and I'm ready to sue such incredible negligence.
So apparently the woman (it wasn’t a boy) who was hanging limp is OK!
Really ? No shut off ? Just keep running the lift... wow. Lawsuits coming soon. BTW, played ski resorts for 40 years.
The incompetent - seasonal / temp worker - low paid teenagers running the chairlift and manning the radios ( if they have any working at that time ) literally stopped the lift - twice - with people directly on top of the gushing high pressure water. Not kidding. These people deserve LARGE checks from the general liability carrier of this ski resort.
They deserve nothing. Hopefully these I'm so cool look at me skiing bozos on the chair got rocked real good.
@@naidzs4319 Did a skier steal your girlfriend back in high school or something? Jeez
@@astelthyninja8927 I'm a woman. Are you calling me gay?
@@naidzs4319 yes
@@astelthyninja8927 It is so fun watching them get blasted and frost bite.
I've worked at ski resorts and this looked like lack of training and communication. To stop the lift for two minutes with someone being blasted with high pressure water and then leave him and the other victims there. It was cold people. All those others that got sprayed were wet and freezing too. Where were their Snow Cats to pull under the lift to rescue these people. Does anyone know what the condition is of these people is today?
they could have parked a snow machine on top on the gushing water to at least redirect it
Or they could stop the damn lift and get some lift evac kits to get all the cold people off the chair lift
For anyone underplaying this... its like getting hit with a firehose if you've ever experienced major water pressure. As you saw it could easily knock you out and with no where to go, drown you. I woulda bailed if I was that poor guy on the chair. Hopefully he's ight
I like how ski patrol just sweep snow away from his shoulders at 6:10. Gotta stay dry and warm.
I am rarely a "you should sue" guy...but this level of idiocy is unforgivable. Sue...you deserve every penny.
I'm usually not a person calling to sue someone. But in this case I hope this resort gets sued, there have to be consequences if an incompetent resort is putting people's lives in danger like that.
Highly unlikely.
If you've ever been to Beech, you're probably not surprised by this at all. Horrible place with horrible management.
Still the best mtn on lower east coast
Before Beech replaced the lifts a couple years ago the lifts would frequently breakdown. The vibe on Beech is pretty cool but I prefer skiing Sugar
@@dpoe7426 yeah I prefer beech for the park scene and alpine slopes.. sugar is a bit slow IMO
Well you’re more than welcome not to come back 🤷♀️. It was a freak incident
@Freddy Muldoon lmao not being rude just honest. Those of us that live in this area are generally welcoming. We do get tired of the entitled attitudes that always come through. I guess you didn’t pay attention to your comment about being rude though 🤷♀️. Generally if you don’t like something you don’t need or have to go back to it just saying.
Imagine the bad luck to 1)be on the lift at the time, 2)the lift stops at the absolute worst time possible.
what is amazing is they didnt try to turn off the water - there is a button for shut down - coulda been bad but also better image, leaving the water running - as a snowmaker of my youth - we have E shut down for water
I've just watched that, appalled. Forget the staff/police/EMT, there's about 100 adults just standing there watching and filming, instead of taking action. Absolutely pathetic. "Let's stand around and watch a guy get killed." Wankers.
@@DSSlocksmiths no one died but yes - poor movements
@@DSSlocksmiths black mirror
The only thing I'm missing in this video is a dancing bear mascot
I mean the incompetence of the staff is bad enough, but where is a emergency valve or the main water line valve? Every pipe has one.
Imagine sitting in that thing for the first time with a fear of heights and then you are approaching that spray
Incompetence at its finest. Shutting off a water line should be a easy procedure and something you practice. Hope the owners of this resort get sued into oblivion.
I think you have to do it really slowly or other pipes start bursting
@@moondoggyJ55 as a person working with snow making, I know that proper maintained high pressure pipes won't burst. It's just a matter of shutting of the pumps.
@@alexanderbjork6451 skier hit the hydrant and broke it off.
@@moondoggyJ55 Yep, water hammer is real. getting the maintenance people there, turning the valve takes time. I am not sure what type of system they have but even putting the pumps offline you still have water in the line that that is 1ft elevation = 0.47 psi. Those suggesting parking a snowmobile on it or covering it with clothes - lol..
@@elyhim are you saying you think the pressure would flip a snowmobile? That person was stuck in the water stream for 2 full minutes. I would think trying anything would be better than nothing. Snowmobile weighs 500lbs. You think that pipe is flinging it to the moon? Is be slightly worried about debris being turned into a projectile.
Damn, when people started jumping broke my heart. Wtf were the operators thinking leaving people in that water instead of stopping the lift?
I was there, craziest thing I’ve seen in my life. Keep in mind that it was right around 15 degrees Fahrenheit at that time today. I really hope that person in the chair is going to be alright
Edit: This occurred before the video, but the first person on the chair lift to go through the water got thrown off and fell.
They all got treated and released
@@natashamc.9520 So that makes it ok? I've seen your other comments. It confuses me why you're defending the resort and how this situation was handled me so much.
@@girlish911 it wasn’t the resorts fault that a skier hit the hydrant. Like I said freak accident, guess you’re going to get mad at your vehicle if someone else hits you and causes an accident too.
@@natashamc.9520 No, I wouldn't. I just think that large corporations and resorts like this have a greater liability in "freak accidents" or events that happen on their property when they occur. Even though this was an accident like you said, the way it was handled shows a lack of preparation, inadequate training and honestly a lot of incompetency on their part. People got hurt because of it. People were put in danger. So for organizations that hold larger stakes when things occur such as this one, yeah I think there should be some form of accountability that is more than " they checked and released them later". It just baffles me sometimes when I see people fighting for these organizations in this way. It's like you're doing yourself a disservice 🤷🏿♀ idk
@@natashamc.9520 It’s the resort’s fault that their pipes are so poorly maintained that they burst when somebody runs into it. It’s also their fault for putting them underneath the ski lift. It’s especially their fault for allowing the ski lift to continue to run.
1 million dollars and a lift ticket for life
💯%!
I can’t believe they stopped it on that person
And then they told them to stay on while they leisurely move along, that person was hanging there it looked like. Kinda seems weird
I'm not positive on this but, the brake fork on that tower was likely broken by water. They're having to bypass the 24 volt system to run the lift. That can cause problems in itself. My guess at this point I haven't heard definitively. I do hope that person survived. There is word someone passed but I'm not sure on that either.
@Vonyoung Anh obviously not trying to. Glad to hear everyone made it. Were you there or know people on the mtn?
@Vonyoung Anh I hope not - are we sure no one died?
Exactly this is terrible
Probably not as easy/practical as I make it sound but maybe someone can invent some method to attach a ladder or boom or something to a snow plow or other type of snow vehicle. Even if they can't pluck someone off the chair they could reach and treat them with blankets etc etc.
Or attach a rope ladder to the chairs Incase someone needs to get down in an Emergency. That would’ve been helpful too for those that did end up jumping
Lift evacuation equipment exists and is present at every hill with a lift, but it takes a team to operate safely and takes a while to get everyone assembled.
Even a quickly inflatable pad or blanket that people could hold to make tension would be a lot better than nothing.
@@QPatriot07 You're talking about the rope system, basically to hoist rescue personnel to the victim ? Yeah, that looks like it'd take some time with one of those. If there was only something they could use in conjunction with a snow plow --- but that's probably wishful thinking/engineering.
News said 2 died -must have been the poor guy who was forced in n out -….GOG BLESS HIM
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Не повезло так не повезло. Скорейшего выздоровления пострадавшим
А что это за явление?????😰😰😰
@@АнастасияСигаева-м9о читай правильно. Евление!
@@Kofeinovich это ты ,евление. Гугли хоть, грамотей
@@АнастасияСигаева-м9о а вы сами гуглить умеете? Где вы находитесь , грамотеи такие?
This really pissed me off how they just let people be blasted with cold water in freezing temperatures. I felt physically sick seeing the second guy just drooping there and not moving when the finally got him out of the water. All I could think is that he was going to lose body parts to frost bite. That place needs new owners and safety personnel as well as hefty fines. Hope those who suffered sued the F out of that ski resort.
This video should be shown to all resorts as an example of how not to run a resort and how to instantly kill your business. The lack of communication is staggering. Nobody knew what to do and made the situation worse by turning the lift back on. I'm not familiar with the location of this pipe on the hill or their water/air system but it looks like the pumps were still going strong for the duration and no shutoffs were available.
The only people who would get excited about this are Wim Hof, and personal injury attorneys.
id have totally unhookd myself dangled and dropped vs being slowly and obviously shuffled to my doom lol
Wow, is that guy in the chair ok? So many questions about the response.
yeah he is he has hypothermia tho
It’s so sad, I hope that guy is ok now.
that one kid was left over the spray for 1 minute. What was the operator doing!?!?
i would not want to be jumping off that in ski boots, thats how you'd snap your leg
I love how you can sort of see the person in the chair leaning back a bit like ''why me?''
Is that person unconscious after getting drenched? What the hell! They should have stopped the lift once it started spraying.
Why was that guy who got blasted alone just dangling there for ages when he could’ve been pulled in long ago 😢
The lift operator had no clue they had someone stuck over a broke water main! Once ski patrol got there they, advised the lift operator to move the lift forward. My question is why didn’t someone cut one of the pads off the chair lift post and use it to try to deflect the water while somebody was stuck above it? Dropping off a chair lift should only be done in a life or death situation! The people who done that were idiots!
Many thanks for another nightmare Beech Mountain
This looks like what happens when you try to cut costs and operate with too few employees. The lift operator should have had clear instructions to protect the resort guests within 1 or 2 minutes of the hydrant blowing. Every segment of the lift is supposed to be monitored when in use with radio communications to ensure quick response. Bad management.
LOL. Making random stuff up.
why didn't the ski patrol put a snowmobile or snowcat on top of the breakout site?
Пипец. Где это произошло и почему коммуникации с водой оказались под подъемником……?!?
Shout out to the real MVP Louis! Holding it down like it’s just another Thursday
Oh my goodness I seriously hope everyone is okay, this is hard to watch. They're going to be paying big bucks for this mistake.
Thousands saved on maintenance, may now cost millions in liability. Not cool Beech.
Nice bike dude
@@MPHshoots thanks Mason, I love er she keeps me running fast! 👌😃👊
Are you kidding me stopping it while the guy was a above it couldn't stop it in between somehow?
This is insane. 😳
No plan of action, no experience, no emergency shut off, no communication ,no emergency plans in place
I smell a lawsuit on the way.
My idea of Hell. I’ll be in the lodge sippin’ hot chocolate. God bless those poor people.
Poor Beech I hope they have good insurance obviously some massive negligence going on with mountain Ops here. The chair continuing to spin well after the pipe burst and then stopping riders above it should never happen.
Yeah... poor beech. 🙄
I didn't know they offered high power colonics on the ski lift, I truly did not 🤔
What idiots were operating this chair lift. It's beyond belief. I feel for this poor souls being stuck right above this massive water jet.
holy hell. i was there literally a week ago and that place was crawling with ski patrol. that's insane and infuriating. like how does that even go on for so long. let say no radios are working. why didn't anyone go find someone. or go tell the lift operators to stop moving. where was patrol??
I hope that everyone involved makes a safe recovery and staff are taught simple communication and organization. this is wild.
Having entered water below 10C before (unclothed), I'm pretty sure I would have chosen to jump rather than be whipped with it.
I've skied there many times, there are large shut off valves nearby, can't maintenance or ski rescue shut it down? P.S. is that guy hanging from the lift dead?
Having skied for over 40 years and pretty much seen it all, this was a total failure by the patrol and lift operator. Maybe they are understaffed like most businesses these days. A classic example, at the price of the suspended skiers well being, of unprepared and terrible reactive communications.
There is no single "lift operator".
@@alanwhite933 Shhhh.... she has 40 years. That is the expert hint and a signal to never challenge them.
The lift can be controlled by on operator.
@@alanwhite933 Of course there is , have you ever seen ski lift ?
@@kaapuuu As I mentioned, I used to work as a chairlift operator.
After that guy stuck there being sprayed for so long, ppl started jumping down. They’d rather jump down over experiencing that.
1) Someone on-site should know where the main shutoff valve is.
2) An EFV (excess flow valve) should have been in place to automatically stop the flow in this type of event.
3) The lifts can be run backwards... why didn't they do this?
4) Digging at the rupture isn't helping at all. Maybe a few snowboards could have been used to divert the spray away from lifts but the pressure is probably too much and would have created hazards to anyone attempting that.
@Vonyoung Anh There is a point were the people have offloaded on the front end. Nitwit is not necessary.
I'm not sure how useful it'd actually be in the situation but I'd try and get as many people as possible to offer up their jackets as padding for them to jump. Yeah, you'll be cold but you won't be as cold as the people on the lift.
Who tf is controlling the lift??!
Why did it take so long for people to move with urgency??
This entire video was horrific
That will sure put you off using a bidet for life.
lmaoo
@Vonyoung Anh not funny cause bidets are great
Let's go skiing they said...It'll be fun they said.
Park a snowmobile over it for crying out loud
would probably be more dangerous to the person on the lift, the water pressure is strong enough to rip parts off of the snowmobile and send it in the direction of the person stuck on the lift
@@quinnburtenshaw4146 it's probably strong enough to straight up lift the snowmobile and throw it into the chair. If the spray is still strong enough to lift a person out of that chair like 30 feet in the air, imagine how strong it is at that base.
Could at least deflect it a bit, sure it's strong but you can direct the flow a little without sending the thing into the air.
Thank you for the footage.
Im pretty sure that one person was frozen to the lift
they were completely. they were a few seats behind my friend and I and when It was there turn to get off the lift had to be stopped and they had to be removed from their chair.
@@dardenwhite3886 Did they survive?
@@Ugryzh i believe they are okay from what i have heard! we saw them moving around a bit after they were taken off
@@dardenwhite3886 what time did this happen? We were there all day Friday but somehow didn’t see this
@@hallie7756 it was at about 5:20 or 5:30
A few Law suites there. Why didn't they just drive one of the Snow groomers over it deflect the spray?