You could just love it -- the flare of red fire in the sky, the brief tattoo of blue fire behind your eyelids -- for no good reason.
It's possible this is a staged public service announcement for fire safety during today's game against England, but given the fact that these guys snap into action in a for-real kind of way, and the pretty high probability of some kind of flare and fire issue happening around the time of a climactic soccer moment, it's also entirely possible that this video is the real deal.
He banked the Husky over a pennant of flare gas fire, and from the size of the flame estimated the well was producing 1,500 barrels of oil per day.
Water is still being pumped onto Glasgow School of art this morning, though firefighters now say they have contained the blaze which has so extensively ravaged the Mackintosh building there may still be pockets of fire flaring up.
Fans stormed the field, crowds spooked and stampeded towards steel doors bolted shut, some hastily fired flares caused a column of fire to explode behind the stands, and riot police neglected to prevent the situation from spiraling, either because they were overwhelmed or because... well, everyone is speculating.
It was a night of fire and flares, mobs and gunfire.
During Sympathy for the Devil the scrap-metal phoenix at the top of the stage raises its wings and spurts jets of fire, while flares in the middle of the crowd produce suitably infernal red smoke.
If Earth does find itself in the line of fire of any large event, we are reasonably well protected from solar flares.
He evokes its convivial din: 'the rattling of ice in cocktail shakers, the pop of Champagne corks and the sudden blare of rhumba music" and its "air violet with pleasurably exhaled smoke," a haze punctuated by "the flare of flicked lighters" and "roving photographers firing blinding barrages from silvery Speed Graphics".
Department of fire and emergency services spokesman Marc Still said it was the largest fire "in a long time", and the flare-up of a fire burning at Boddington, about 300km north, on Tuesday, made it one of the biggest fire events ever in WA. "We have never had two separate fires of this significance burning at the same time," he said.
