FIRE FUTUROSCOPE. A fire broke out in a Futuroscope attraction this Friday, April 7, 2023. A video was shot at the time of the fright.
[Mise à jour le 7 avril à 15h42] Wind of panic this Friday morning at Futuroscope. A fire broke out in an attraction of the park located near Poitiers (Vienne). Around 10:30 a.m., an “Objectif mars” wagon arrived on fire in front of the queue with two women on board, revealed TF1 at midday. Panic then took hold of the premises, but the staff reacted very quickly by extinguishing the flames using fire extinguishers. A certainly life-saving reaction, even if the two people were injured. The first was hit in the ears and neck, while the other was hit in the tibia, says The Parisian.
Very quickly, the origin of the brief fire was identified by the management of the park. According to her, it is a lithium battery which, located under one of the seats of the attraction, ignited, without the exact cause being known.” The battery caught fire at the end of the route of the attraction, the train continued its arrival at the station a few seconds later”, explained to the daily, Rodolphe Bouin, general manager of Futuroscope. This attraction has been closed to the public but the rest of the park is still open.
Objectif Mars are the first and only Futuroscope roller coaster. The management has invested 20 million euros in this attraction, which opened in June 2020. In it, visitors are immersed in a space training center, putting themselves in the shoes of a future astronaut. The attraction promises visitors unique effects in France, such as indoor fire, and a ludo-sensitive mode with electromagnetic fields, solar flares, superluminal accelerations, speed peaks of up to 55 kilometers per hour.