Fire-Breather Performer Burned At Party - "She Was Instantly In Flames"

[matcom]

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A 22-year-old fire breather burned her face and torso during a party in Royal Oak, according to witnesses.

Beth Guzdek of Sterling Heights put flammable liquid in her mouth, held a lit baton in front of her and she breathed flames, said Keith Howarth, one of about 60 guests at the party. Howarth is her boss at Noir Leather. During the second fire blow, the flames leapt back at her.

The incident occurred at 11 p.m. Saturday in the driveway of a home in the 700 block of South Rembrandt.

Guzdek, who does data entry, sales and modeling for the store in Royal Oak, did not comment.

"She instantly was in flames," Howarth said. "She immediately started to scream and started running haphazardly in the driveway looking for someplace to extinguish herself."

http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/wnoir14_20040714.htm

[matcom]

1. kick

:bounce:

[SheilaT]

2. The question that immediately comes to my mind

is did she really know how to fire-breathe properly? I gather there are certain tricks to it, and the report sounds rather like she'd read something about it once and decided to try on her own, but had no real clue how it's done.

[Ready4Change]

3. Amateur I'd guess.

Hopefully she didn't inhale any flames.