WARNING! Disturbing footage. This horrific footage captured the moment two girls were set alight in the middle of a school play.
Izucar de Matamoros, central Mexico
Story from mirror.co.uk
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The video shows a girl can be seen walking towards the middle of the stage where the large cardboard box is.
She is talking over it and says: "...and with no more lies," before lighting a match, and throwing it towards the prop. It catches on fire immediately and suddenly the two students jump up with flames all over their bodies. One of them runs straight off stage while the other runs around panicking as the student who lit the match tries to put out the fire that can be seen burning her hair and left arm.
The high school students named as 16-year-old Veronica and 17-year-old Athziri were rushed to hospital in their home town of Izucar de Matamoros, in Mexico. Veronica has since been released while Athziri is still being treated for second degree burns.
The family of one of the girls demanded that the teacher be sacked, saying that there was a lack of proper supervision and security measures.
The teacher had reportedly said at the time that the play should be as real as possible.
The insurance company which covers the school also declined to take responsibility for the students’ medical bills as they said the fire was not accidental.
School authorities confirmed that the member of staff responsible had been sacked.
They said: "The teacher responsible for the class has been removed from the institution, after an investigation uncovered an omission on his part during the planning of the activity."
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I'm sorry to say that this happened back in July and as far as I can tell, no one in our industry picked up this news till I saw this on the /r/techtheatre/ reddit group where it was only posted 2 days ago.
This is why we take such a strong stance on Safety on ControlBooth.
I am pissed right now, I am having trouble processing this. Every accident, every school play mishap, every senseless death and injury that I see in school theatre makes me wonder what CB might have been able to prevent if even just one student at that school had known about us. Call me arrogant or a dreamer, but this is why we are here. This is why thousands of you spend your time on ControlBooth, why we all strive to make our industry a better place. Please, reach out to every school you have contact with and make sure the students know there is a place they can come with any question about theatre or safety.
Izucar de Matamoros, central Mexico
Story from mirror.co.uk
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The video shows a girl can be seen walking towards the middle of the stage where the large cardboard box is.
She is talking over it and says: "...and with no more lies," before lighting a match, and throwing it towards the prop. It catches on fire immediately and suddenly the two students jump up with flames all over their bodies. One of them runs straight off stage while the other runs around panicking as the student who lit the match tries to put out the fire that can be seen burning her hair and left arm.
The high school students named as 16-year-old Veronica and 17-year-old Athziri were rushed to hospital in their home town of Izucar de Matamoros, in Mexico. Veronica has since been released while Athziri is still being treated for second degree burns.
The family of one of the girls demanded that the teacher be sacked, saying that there was a lack of proper supervision and security measures.
The teacher had reportedly said at the time that the play should be as real as possible.
The insurance company which covers the school also declined to take responsibility for the students’ medical bills as they said the fire was not accidental.
School authorities confirmed that the member of staff responsible had been sacked.
They said: "The teacher responsible for the class has been removed from the institution, after an investigation uncovered an omission on his part during the planning of the activity."
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I'm sorry to say that this happened back in July and as far as I can tell, no one in our industry picked up this news till I saw this on the /r/techtheatre/ reddit group where it was only posted 2 days ago.
This is why we take such a strong stance on Safety on ControlBooth.
I am pissed right now, I am having trouble processing this. Every accident, every school play mishap, every senseless death and injury that I see in school theatre makes me wonder what CB might have been able to prevent if even just one student at that school had known about us. Call me arrogant or a dreamer, but this is why we are here. This is why thousands of you spend your time on ControlBooth, why we all strive to make our industry a better place. Please, reach out to every school you have contact with and make sure the students know there is a place they can come with any question about theatre or safety.
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