According to Stuff.co.nz, a new New Zealand realty show seriously burned one of the contestants during its filming. At the time, the contestant was repeating a stunt -- walking through a wall of fire -- that he had already performed successfully, because the producers wanted to "get a better shot" of it. During the second try, the man's shirt caught fire, and he required skin-graft surgery on his upper body at a hospital in Auckland, NZ. A friend who visited him in the hospital described him as "a really unhappy customer."
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Since some of us live near West Warwick, Rhode Island, we have a strong appreciation for the dangers posed by pyrotechnic devices. Perhaps now the risk will sink in on the other side of the globe as well.
