2 Boys Hospitalized After Bounce House Flies 50 Feet Into the Air

Two boys remained hospitalized in Upstate New York today after a bounce house they were playing in was swept off the ground during a windstorm.

The inflatable playhouse had been staked to a front yard Monday in South Glens Falls, while the boys and a girl played inside.

Witnesses said a gust of wind upward of 25 mph, lifted the house approximately 50 feet - more than two stories high - and carried it over a stretch of woods before dropping it on a two-story schoolhouse.

"It was like a horror movie," resident Taylor Seymour told ABC News. "That poor, little kid came flying, just came flying out of nowhere."

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All three children survived. The girl, 10, fell out just after liftoff and suffered scrapes. The boys, 5 and 6, suffered injuries ranging from two broken arms to a serious head injury after one was dropped onto the street below and the other, onto a car.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates the number of injured because of inflatable playhouses to be in the thousands each year.

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Little Tikes, the manufacturer of the playhouse, said it was looking into the accident.

"Providing safe and wholesome outdoor play experiences is of utmost important to Little Tikes," a statement read. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families."

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