This scenario allowing burning embers to land on the heads, shoulders, and backs of spectators. A kind and alert Dutchman brushed burning embers off this reporter s back. It was then that he noticed that there was only one exit, and it was blocked by coats. Acrid smoke filled the air and one imagines being at the wrong end of an offensive. At several points the ground cannot even be seen, blocked as it is by smoke.
Celebrants dart in and out of view like sappers.
The feeling is uneasy and one begins to wonder why people don t get killed in these circumstances. It turns out they do. And the next day, when the reports came in from Volendam it was easy, unfortunately, to picture the scene. Comments about this story. The Earth Times All rights reserved.