Disney World guest tries to rescue collapsed man in latest medical emergency

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on Dec 4, 2025

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A Good Samaritan tried to save a man suffering the latest medical emergency to strike Walt Disney World — after a string of deaths at the Orlando park throughout October.

According to dramatic video obtained by TMZ on Thursday, an unidentified man collapsed during the Magic Kingdom’s new “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” parade late last week.

The video shows another attendee — clad in Minnie Mouse ears and a Disney World jacket — frantically giving chest compressions to the fallen individual, whose current condition remains unclear.

It’s also unknown whether the two guests knew each other prior to the ordeal. The Daily News has reached out to Orlando Police and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District for additional information.

The incident comes on the heels of a rough time for Disney parks, following the June announcement that Walt Disney Co. would be laying off hundreds of employees in cost-saving measures.

In early October, a guest in her 60s died after falling unconscious while riding the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland in California.

Summer Equitz, 31, then died by apparent suicide at Disney World’s Contemporary Resort, near Florida’s Magic Kingdom, on Oct. 14.

By Oct. 24, a male in his 60s had died after “a medical episode” at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground’s Cottontail Curl loop. Matthew Cohn, 28, also died by suicide at the Contemporary Resort.

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