Hot coal walk leaves 25 injured in Switzerland

It's been shown over and over unprepared idiots burning their feet. Besides don't the coals have to be burnt down for hours, you know where they still glow? but the surface temp is low, then raked down and prepared properly. Didn't we learn that in the 80's on "That's Impossible"?

It's my parents' generation's fire challenge crazy for it to still be a corporate/team building event?

Burns hurt like hell, Id rather break my arm than get a serious 3rd degree on 15% of my arm. Your feet are particularly sensitive, to burns and scarring and build-up of keloid tissue, Granted these will likely be 2nd-degree burns but still as painful as hell with some scarring possible. I like what one comment from the second link said "I can understand the first 5 or so but 20?"

Imagine searing your feet to prove you belong to a corporation, and people make fun of the hazing in fraternities, it ain't much difference but hey if a corporation does it it's just team building. Not to get all Carlinesque but screw you I'm not gonna burn my feet off on the weekend for a ribbon at work.

and not to go way off... the same corporate think that tried to bring us never-ending vaccines and health care tracking etc

Thirteen of them were taken to hospital and treated for more severe injuries after the incident on Tuesday evening.

A large emergency response, including 10 ambulances, arrived at the private event at around 18:00 (16:00 GMT).

The group walked over a bed of coals that was several metres long and felt pain shortly after, police said.

It is not yet clear if there was an issue with the set-up of the coals or with how the group walked across them.

Officials have opened an investigation and taken evidence from the site, which is in the Au peninsular just south of the city of Zurich.

www.20min.ch...

The British broadcaster BBC even posted the news on Twitter. The entry is currently receiving a lot of comments. For example, one user says with a lot of irony that he considers the event to be a successful team-building exercise. Because: "Nothing brings people together as much as a common trauma." Many users wonder how this could have happened. "I still understand the first five, but the next 20... not so much..." writes a woman.

The news of the team event for employees of the advertising marketer Goldbach, which like 20 Minuten belongs to the TX Group, was also published in Spanish and Portuguese. In the Spanish newspaper " La Vanguardia " readers debate the usefulness of team building events. "Team building is not about competition between teams, but about getting to know each other better in order to be able to work efficiently," explains one user. "Oh, that's stupid," replies a man. Another reader says: "The motto 'No limits' takes its toll."

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People are lemmings

originally posted by: ancientlight
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People are lemmings

True, the thing is it can be done but you have to know what you are doing. The main thing is it isn't because they willed themselves or it was the power of camaraderie it's just physics.

www.gizmodo.com.au...

This is well-established science. The key factors at play are the low thermal conductivity of the burning wood-turned-to-coal, an insulating layer of ash and the short time of contact between the hot coals and the soles of the feet.

In particular, the coals must burn down to around 538C, preferably with a thin layer of ash providing extra insulation. This also burns off excess water, which increases the heat capacity and thermal conductivity of the coals.

And while it’s tempting to want to run across hot coals, this actually pushes your feet deeper into the embers, increasing the burn risk. A nice steady walking pace is best. (Some say wetting your feet beforehand can add protection via the Leidenfrost effect, but Willey has found the effects of this to be negligible and prefers to firewalk dry-footed.)

Back in 1998, Willey and Kjetil Kjernsmo of University of Oslo developed a computer model of a fire walker’s foot, and then compared it to infrared imagery of people fire walking in Seattle. Those images showed that the foot really does remain cool when the stunt is done correctly.

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originally posted by: EternalShadow
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Well that's the thing these people aren't unintelligent it's a media company's employees and some 6 figure exec thought this BS was OK and made his subordinates get it set up. Presumably, somebody said let's find somebody who knows how to fire walk?

Hahahaha amazing. Fire walk with me……

I think all these “humans” obviously not robots need better critical thinking programs errr skills.