Lawyer Ben Crump just lately introduced a number of victims have come ahead with alleged accidents in relation to a deadly incident on an Epic Universe curler coaster in Orlando, Florida. (Credit score: FOX 35 Orlando)
A Common Orlando Resort curler coaster caught hearth Friday morning.
Hollywood Rip Journey Rockit is within the means of being demolished to make room for a brand new attraction on the theme park. The small hearth occurred on a portion of the experience’s carry hill, Orlando Fireplace Division informed native FOX 35 Orlando.
The experience closed on Aug. 18. Lots of the iconic options, such because the loop, have already been eliminated and Common has not but publicly introduced what’s changing the coaster.
The reason for the hearth just isn’t but recognized and there have been no accidents, native media shops reported. The hearth division didn’t instantly reply to a FOX Enterprise inquiry.
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A normal view of the Hollywood Rip Journey Rockit rollercoaster following the Premier League Summer time Sequence Legends 5v5 at Common Studios on July 24, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. (Julio Aguilar / Getty Pictures)
Common Orlando Resort now options 4 parks following the opening of Common Epic Universe in Might.
Simply final month, Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, 32, died after using Stardust Racers within the Celestial Park portion of the latest park.
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Lawyer Benjamin Crump shows a photograph of the Stardust Racers Epic Universe curler coaster throughout a press convention with the household of Kevin Zavala in downtown Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The experience reopened final weekend. Lawyer Ben Crump, who’s representing Zavala’s household, known as the deliberate reopening “a grave danger to public security.”
“Reopening the experience earlier than our specialists can look at each element is unadulterated spoliation of proof, a grave danger to public security, and places revenue over folks’s lives. Common reportedly informed workers the experience functioned as meant. If that’s correct, then the design itself is lethal. We’re demanding that Common pause the reopening, protect all proof, and permit our specialists to examine it. In the event that they refuse, we’ll deal with Common’s callous actions in courtroom,” Crump mentioned.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace incident report says that Zavala’s girlfriend, who was on the theme park with him, informed legislation enforcement that Zavala, who used a wheelchair, had a spinal damage and was taking medicine.
Guests experience the Hollywood Rip Journey Rockit curler coaster at Common Studios theme park on the primary day of reopening from the coronavirus pandemic, on June 5, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. (GREGG NEWTON/AFP / Getty Pictures)
Common Orlando President Karen Irwin mentioned in a letter to Common employees days earlier than Stardust Racers reopened that, “our complete technical and operational assessment confirmed the experience programs functioned correctly all through the boarding course of, the period of the experience, and upon the experience car’s return to the station, and our Workforce Members adopted procedures all through.”
| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
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| CMCSA | COMCAST CORP. | 29.46 | -0.62 | -2.06% |
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