Caught on video: It takes a village and lot of Gatorade to put out a fire.
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The video above is from Scott Crider and was taken during a recent high school football game at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka, Kansas. This story was just made for TV news. It’s perfect to help the anchors make that transition from news to sports. Here’s the story. According to various websites that covered this incident, the woman in black is Beverly Bernardi Post, a “local baton twirling legend”. Apparently, as they like to say way too much in TV news, “something went terribly wrong” (UK TV folks say “something went horribly wrong”) as she was lighting up and a lot more than her batons were flaming.
Maybe the fire was a plot by the winning coach to avoid a Gatorade bath, because the sports drink became the extinguishing agent of choice for the flammable liquids fire engulfing the sidelines. As the band played on without missing a beat (play TV newscaster at home and fill in your own favorite tune with “fire” in the title that you think the band should have been playing and then chuckle), a number of people jumped into action to beat back the stubborn flames.
In the end, the fire went out and there were apparently no injuries. The unanswered question from everything I have read is whether the show went on. Did she get to twirl her famous flaming batons or was this sideline sideshow the only fireworks anyone got to see?
