Overview
- Videos posted to TikTok and eyewitness accounts show smoke filling the show's loading area and Cast Members using a fire extinguisher to control the scene.
- The incident occurred on Wednesday, July 1, and Cast Members carried out a controlled evacuation of boats and queue areas with no reported injuries.
- Multiple outlets and a theme-park journalist report that a guest’s portable phone charger experienced a thermal failure and ignited inside a bag on a ride boat.
- Disney teams cleared smoke, ran safety and mechanical checks, and the attraction reopened roughly 90 minutes after the disruption with no lasting damage reported.
- The episode underscores how high-capacity lithium-ion power banks can undergo rapid 'thermal runaway' and why trained ride-ops procedures and clear evacuation paths matter in continuous boat attractions.