There's a gator in the lake...and the castle's on fire!

zulemara

<font color=royalblue>Oh Boy! I'm a WDW sailor!<br
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I just have to share this with all of you. The highlight of my day yesterday was seeing a gator in the lake on the north side of discovery island. I was sure to point it out to the guests on the boat.

That was until....

10pm, fireworks are going off as usual, I'm deckhand on the Fowler, unloading at the TTC. All of a sudden, there's no more fireworks. What on earth is going on? I go up to the TTC and talk to the guests standing there. They say the audio just cut out and everything stopped. Well that's odd, we're only 9 minutes into the show!

I return to MK and hear announcements in the park that the fireworks are delayed due to extenuating circumstances.

10 minutes later, the music starts up and the fireworks continue where they left off.


It turns out...get this...during the pirates storming the castle scene, where the castle appears to be getting bombed, a guest called 911 reporting a fire on the castle because he/she saw smoke!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Way to kill the fireworks for literally 50k people.

So please, don't call 911, it's a special effect. Disney messes up a lot of things, but they don't screw around with fireworks.

Just had to share:lmao::lmao::lmao:
 
That's too funny....and sad at the same time.
 
That is hilarious. I just hope that the same people don't call in that they witnessed raping and pillaging on POTC.
 

WOW. Some people just do not get it. Even if it was a real fire did they think that Disney did not have it under control or already called RCFD.
 
Wow! That is to funny indeed.
I guess it was their first visit to WDW? :confused3
I wonder that kind of call they would make for Illuminations? The sky is falling! :scared1:
 
That is pretty funny. At least they were concerned about the castle! :lmao:
 
I was wondering what happened. We were watching from our room at the Poly. We saw Tinkerbell fly down then poof....I here the audio say once, "The summer nightastic fireworks is having technical difficulties and will not continue." There were alot of PO'd folks on the beach. I can only imagine how many folks had shelled out cash for the fireworks cruise and got the big letdown.

I have video! I was recording from the Poly when it happened.
 
WOW. Some people just do not get it. Even if it was a real fire did they think that Disney did not have it under control or already called RCFD.

That's the big thing. Do you really think a company that shoots off 10s of thousands of dollars of fireworks off every single night doesn't have a system in place in the event of a real fire/problem somewhere?

I didn't think someone could be so dumb, but once again, I'm surprised by a new level of stupidity.
 
Wow! That is to funny indeed.
I guess it was their first visit to WDW? :confused3
I wonder that kind of call they would make for Illuminations? The sky is falling! :scared1:

OMG THERE'S A BIG FIRE INSIDE THE GLOBE!!

I even saw the globe not open one time and the fire started up. I thought it was fully round, but as I found out, it is hallow at the top. Nonetheless, I didn't panic and call 911. I figured if it was a problem, they would kill the show!
 
Wow, how embarrassing! I bet the caller will never live that down... "Hey, remember the time you called 911 because you thought the castle was on fire" :lmao:
 
I was there! It was the weirdest thing.. tink flew down and then it got extremely quiet. I remember thinking, Wow they sure give her a long time to fly down before the fireworks start again! And then the announcement of a temporary delay. It took way longer than 10 mins for them to start up again. We waited at least 20 before giving up and heading to Space Mountain. They apparentally went off while we were in there.

I blame it on my curse: in the last month I've tried to see Fantasmic, MSEP, and Nighttastic fireworks, and they've all had major problems. Mickey didn't show up for Fantasmic (spotlights went up and he was nowhere to be found), MSEP got rained out (2 nights ago), and then last night with the fireworks. My friends said they won't come with me to the parks anymore :rotfl2:
 
Ha, Ha! Iv'e trying to find some more gators out there.

Hilarious about the fireworks.

Haven't been to see the fireworks this summer. Are the pirates storming the castle part of the summer show? If so, very cool.
 
That's the big thing. Do you really think a company that shoots off 10s of thousands of dollars of fireworks off every single night doesn't have a system in place in the event of a real fire/problem somewhere?

I didn't think someone could be so dumb, but once again, I'm surprised by a new level of stupidity.

And this explains why I am paid to answer 9-1-1 calls for a local fire department. ;)

I can't say that I am surprised. By either the gator or the 9-1-1 call. :sad2:

BUT in defense of that caller...I would bet they genuinely felt that there was a real emergency that needed to be dealt with. If you are on the wrong angle looking at lights and smoke it can be very decieving.
 
I guess in a way something positive could def be said about the situation.....that disney takes security very seriously! In the see something say something environment we live in I guess many people are just paranoid and often time rightfully so.

also has it really been 100% confirmed that a guest called 911 due to the castle being on smoke? Maybe the nighttime event did experience technical problems and somehow it got turned into a story about someone making an error in judgement??? :confused3
 
And this explains why I am paid to answer 9-1-1 calls for a local fire department. ;)

I can't say that I am surprised. By either the gator or the 9-1-1 call. :sad2

I see irony in you post, Donna. :goodvibes

Has anything combusted around you lately?:rolleyes1:rolleyes1
:firefight:firefight:firefight
 

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