Fire at Magic Kingdom

[Giss Neric]

The headlines are wild for such a small fire. I'm seeing headlines like the entire park was evacuated. Magic Kingdom is even trending on Twitter.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

Wow that was one helluva response then.

cmon everyone:
“I’m driving right down the middle of Main Street USA”

makes sense to me…. They’d have a BIT of a PR issue if the extinguisher didn’t put it out and the castle or something near it had major flames.

rolling trucks seems like the prudent thing to do.

 

[Cesar R M]

The headlines are wild for such a small fire. I'm seeing headlines like the entire park was evacuated. Magic Kingdom is even trending on Twitter.

A roaring wild fire success for Bob Chapek!

 

[Squishy]

 

[gerarar]

All castle and FL pyro functioned normally tonight for both DE and MWCF. If the fire was indeed caused by some pyro as suspected earlier, I would imagine some would be turned off tonight pending the investigation, but who knows.

Live stream of both shows tonight:

 

[Bullseye1967]

There’s currently pyro shot prior to the 8pm showings of DE?

The call was a little before 7.

 

[Giss Neric]

All castle and FL pyro functioned normally tonight for both DE and MWCF. If the fire was indeed caused by some pyro as suspected earlier, I would imagine some would be turned off tonight pending the investigation, but who knows.

Live stream of both shows tonight:

It could be someone flicked a cigarette in a bush over by liberty square.

 

[cindy_k]

Best parade video:


New York Post this morning said it was a tree that caught fire from firework debris.

Fire at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom leads to some evacuations

A tree caught fire inside Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Tuesday night — leading to some evacuations before it was extinguished, a report said.

nypost.com

 

[GhostHost1000]

Best parade video:


New York Post this morning said it was a tree that caught fire from firework debris.

Fire at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom leads to some evacuations

A tree caught fire inside Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Tuesday night — leading to some evacuations before it was extinguished, a report said.

nypost.com

and as usual the media is wrong

 

[Lilofan]

A roaring wild fire success for Bob Chapek!

About 10 years ago there were burning wildfires that the firefighters tried to contain in nearby Kissimmee. The air was thick of smoke and haze it made breathing very difficult while we were in the theme parks that week. Wearing a mask would have good but we wrapped some of our t-shirts into bandanas to wear on our faces. Wildfires are no joke.

 

[Gringrinngghost]

Rollercoaster (1977)

 

[peter11435]

and as usual the media is wrong

Yep. Details are incorrect

 

[Goofyernmost]

Old school Disney was 100% show over safety in cases like this.

Welcome to 2021.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

So nalstalgic seejng all those flashing lights shine on the parade route.

 

[Piebald]

Disney can be so good, almost supervillain-like, in terms of making sure some really terrible stuff doesnt ever make the news or even get out beyond a handful of CMs but then they do something like this lol

 

[ToTBellHop]

 

[Andrew C]

but then they do something like this lol

Have the fire department respond to a fire?

 

[peter11435]

Old school Disney was 100% show over safety in cases like this.

No, no they weren’t.

This is by no means the first time this has happened. Old school Disney did this when necessary too. You just didn’t have cell phones, digital cameras, and social media.

 

[Gringrinngghost]

Old school Disney was 100% show over safety in cases like this.

Imagine being perturbed by emergency responders.

 

[Piebald]

Have the fire department respond to a fire?

It makes sense in a perfectly normal world but is quite egregious and miscalculated for Disney. Obviously not saying show over safety means letting people die or things burn in lieu of preserving the magic (makes me think of that South Park episode OLD TIME VILLAGE) but there were better protocols to handle this I'm sure