According to a tweet from KKTV reporter Ashley Franco, a young child has fallen into the maintenance area near an interactive giraffe exhibit at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Franco reports that the child is okay, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department public information officer.
Franco s initial tweet was made at 12:38 PM on Wednesday, December 30, with a later tweet later clarifying that the child fell into a maintenance area, not the exhibit itself. The status of the situation remains unclear, as does what led to the fall.
The giraffe exhibit at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo allows visitors to feed members of what s said to be the largest herd of reticulated giraffes in North America. Visitors feed giraffes from a wraparound deck that places them eye-to-eye with these towering creatures.