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BYU students seriously burned after firebomb accident

“We are not releasing the names of those involved right now,” Gilbert said. “Criminal aspects are still under investigation including criminal mischief, reckless burning and trespassing.”

Three groups of people including a large group of BYU students were participating in pyrotechnics and dropping gasoline down the shaft Saturday night, Utah County sheriff’s Sergeant Spencer Cannon said. The Tintic Mining District shaft is a popular site for illegal pyrotechnics.

“They were dropping fireworks and small bombs into the shaft,” Cannon said. “About two to three gallons of gasoline was lit and kicked or spilled over.”

The fire spilled on the sides of the shaft and burned up the shaft inflicting injuries on the individuals sitting on the grated shaft cap. Some of the participants were sitting on the grate with their legs hanging down when the gasoline was spilled over.

“I heard rumor that there may have been up to 30 individuals there,” Gilbert said. “I met with the ambulances in Syracuse; 12 individuals were transported by ambulance that night.”

Vickie King, executive assistant of public affairs at University of Utah Healthcare, spoke about some of the patients.

“Six patients were admitted,” she said. “Two have  been treated and released and four are still in critical condition.”

“Those involved are very fortunate that no one was killed,” Cannon said. “Several years ago we had a rash of students participating and we issued a number of citations. There is a weird attraction to kids to participate.”

Craig Foster, 25, a senior studying anthropology, said he has participated in dropping explosives down the shaft.

“My friends invited me to go to the fire hole with them a few summers back,” Foster said. “Their trunk was full of milk jugs and bottles of gasoline. When we got to the hole, which is covered by a large open grate, we ripped up t-shirts and stuffed them in the jugs. We lit them and threw the jugs to the bottom where they would explode and send fire up the shaft. It didn’t really seem dangerous. It was really fun.

RedBedHead: Murdoch & News International: BURN BABY BURN!

I'll leave it to others of more sober professional inclinations and responsibility to provide the sophisticated analysis that the present crisis in Britain deserves. For my part I will unabashedly and with great joy celebrate the giant f***ing bonfire that is piling higher and higher everyday with kindling made of the great and good in British politics and media. The whole hacking scandal is coming unravelled so quickly that it's frankly hard to keep track. One minute its a former editor or two, then it's the chief executive, Rebekah Brooks whose willowy red hair makes one think of a character in a Harry Potter film. Now important political figures have started to fall - that includes the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London. The commissioner - undone by the freebies that News International gave him at an exclusive London spa - even had the audacity to have a go at the Prime Minister in his resignation letter. The scandal has also spread to America where, hopefully, it will ignite that towering shithouse of right wing lunacy known as Fox News. Imagine that for a brief, pleasant moment that might be better than a mix of hallucinogens and sex: the end of Fox News. Perhaps Rupert Murdoch, union buster, parasite and vile usurper of the democratic process wherever possible, might actually have, in his dotage, provided a wonderful gift to the left. Maybe we can pick a date (the day of his own looming arrest?) and each year have a festival akin to Britain's Guy Fawkes day where giant bonfires are lit and effigies of Guy Fawkes are thrown on the pyre. Only in this case, we'll toss on effigies of Murdoch, his loathsome son, Rebekah with her serpentine locks writhing in the hot wind of the fire, a few cops and, as the piece de la resistance, David Cameron, the British Tory PM. Ah, I can taste those marshmallows now. Yummy. And the whole thing gets dirtier and deeper with each passing moment. Today the former New of the World journalist who first blew the whistle on phone hacking was found dead by the cops, who immediately proclaimed it "not suspicious". Ah, yes, we'll certainly trust the cops then - who Sean Hoare, the dead journalist - also exposed as involved in the skullduggery that was just another day at the NotW offices. Nothing to see here then. Ignore the body of the man who was promising more and more damaging revelations. Trust us, we're the police - different than the ones who took the bribes and the spa weekends. Really.

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