BUENA PARK, Calif. – The Latest on the rescue of 21 people stuck on an amusement park ride. (all times local):

10:30 p.m.

All 21 people stuck aboard a ride at Southern California’s Knott’s Berry Farm have been safely lowered to the ground after being stuck 100 feet in the air for well over five hours.

Firefighters using ropes and harnesses lowered children and adults one at a time from the Sky Cabin on Friday night. The last person came to the ground just before 10 p.m., about 2 1/2 hours after the first. No one was injured.

The Sky Cabin, which is a slow-moving enclosed space more than a high-speed ride, got stuck at about 2 p.m. carrying 20 riders and an operator. Park mechanics had to call the fire department to help.

Firefighters and park officials say the riders were never in any real danger. But they did spend a claustrophobic afternoon and evening without bathrooms or other provisions.

Knott’s says in a statement that the ride will stay closed until an investigation is completed.

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7:45 p.m.

Firefighters have begun carrying down riders one at a time with a rope and harness from a ride at Southern California’s Knott’s Berry Farm that got stuck 100 feet off the ground.

The first two people, harnessed to firefighters and hugging them tightly, were lowered to the ground Friday night about 5 1/2 hours after the Sky Cabin first got stuck. The process could take hours before all 18 people are safely on the ground.

Knott’s representatives say their mechanics tried several times to get the enclosed, circular tram down before calling the Orange County Fire Authority to assist.

Both firefighters and park officials have said the riders are not in any danger.

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5:45 p.m.

Eighteen people have been stuck 100 feet above the ground for hours on a ride at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California as firefighters devise a rescue plan.

Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Larry Kurtz says Friday night that the riders aren’t in danger.

They are stuck on the Sky Cabin, an enclosed, slow-moving attraction where riders in a circular tram travel up a large cylinder.

The Knott’s website calls the ride “mild.”

Kurtz says the ride is confined and the enclosed the riders aren’t exposed to the elements, so time is on the firefighters’ side.

In a much more frightening incident in 2013 at Knott’s a group of 20 people were stuck 300 feet high on a ride that left them exposed with their legs dangling out.