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| Guinness World Record for Fire Walking Broken 294 feet |
| It has just been a whirlwind of activity since the fire walk and we're just finding time now to get back in touch. I never would have broken the record if it were not for yours and everyone else's support who sent back positive messages and wishes of health for others. Even the people who had a positive thought toward the walk who didn't get a chance to send it to us made a difference. The result? The Guinness World Record was broken on that special day of November 7th by 44 feet for a total of 294 feet, 7 inches. What a day! The buzz and excitement has continued since then and is still going as more and more people find out about the message behind the walk - the coming together to help one another for a common goal! So far, three TV stations, three newspapers and two radio stations have done interviews. The added bonus will be The Discovery Channel's special program to air in approximately two weeks and released worldwide. They filmed everything from start to finish and if you want to find out the exact date, let me know by email and I will update you as soon as they tell me the date. We have been busy collecting all our data to send in to Guinness to verify the record which includes the TV coverage, newspapers pictures and articles considering that due to unexpected torrential rains during the set up for the walk, we lost all coverage we were recording ourselves. So, these pictures on the website are the only ones we have right now, but if you would like to see some when they available, just drop us email. Until then, these are some of the sites that have some coverage of the event: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id =72a1d955-d677-4016-8972-8a52b0af5034&k=0 http://www.citytv.com/calgary/yourcity_36669.aspx http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/11/07/2264800- sun.html http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/540033.html Love, Trever, Candace and Isis-Angellica May the universe continue to send and bless your lives with even more positive energy as we move forward together. |
Received a small third degree burn on each foot when I had to turn around on the coals. The spectators saw the reaction on my face as I turned on the coals and felt them grinding into my feet. I had to let it go right away in order to walk the additional 137 feet back towards the new World Record of 294 feet. |
The official measurement past the old Guinness World Record of 250 feet New World Record set on November 7, 2006 of 294 feet 7 inches verified by Guinness World Records |
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P.S. Following are some of the Murphy's Law issues that showed up throughout that special day if
you choose to read more details:
- The company that was supposed to deliver the sod, which we laid down as the base of the lane,
did not let me know until that morning that they were sorry, but they couldn't deliver any sod
because their fields were still frozen. So, we had to quickly find another source for sod and after
calling them all, we could only find one in the Calgary area who still had any, but they couldn't deliver
before early afternoon which would have been too late to start the lane, so we drove to them to pick
up 2200 pounds of sod in the back of one of our pick up trucks. We didn't notice at the time they
gave us the sod that it was frozen halfway through. Before laying it on the lane, we had to pry it
loose which caused tears and a lot of holes in the sod that had to be filled in which was time
consuming and once repaired we barely had enough to complete the lane.
- The company delivering the wood forgot one cord of pine and proceeded to tell me there was no
way to get another cord delivered until the next day. This missing cord was my pine buffer, so
although it didn't stop me from going ahead, every piece of pine I had went on the lane which
consisted of a heavy layer of one and a quarter cords of cedar on the bottom topped with one cord
each of pine and then birch. Cedar burns the coolest and is used as an igniter for the heavier
woods, pine is a bit more heavy and hotter while birch is the hottest and the longest lasting of the
coals.
- The Chinook winds were high throughout the day and we waited until 4:00PM for them to die down
before we could even light the fire so everyone was on standby with the possibility that the walk
would have to be postponed if the winds didn't calm.
- When it came time to turn the water on for our safety hoses, we found that the pipes had frozen
over the weekend and had split so they were spraying water everywhere and the water had to be
shut off completely. To top it off, the pumper truck that was regularly kept on site had been sent off
to water trees on the far side of the city and no one had told the driver that it would be needed
during the day and he was unavailable by phone.
- We then found every bucket of water and loaded eight barrels of water on the back of trucks at the
site that could be just pushed off the back of the truck that would flood the fire lane if the fire got out
of control. Then we went in search of another water connection farther away so that we could just
string out more hoses to the lane, but every one we tried was frozen and no matter how far we went,
we found the frozen pipes. When we finally found one that worked we started stringing out every
hose we had including going door to door through the trailer park asking to borrow their hoses, we
managed to find 500 feet of hose and strung it all out but was still 200 feet short.
- We knew that the way we built the fire and where it was located we would have no problem
controlling the flames. The water in the buckets and on the back off the trucks would work to control
the fire, but when doing this sort of work, taking any risks isn't worth it. So we called the fire
department to see if they could send out a fire truck for the first initial lighting of the lane...but we
were officially on the other side of the road that marked the city line and they could not send a fire
truck unless it was an emergency. The county line couldn't send one because they were too far
away and they used the city trucks to cover that area. The fire department we talked to really wanted
to help, so after talking to three different people levels of dispatchers who then called the county for
permission to cross the road, they agreed to send the only fire truck they had available. However,
since it was on the other side of the city and would take over an hour to get to us and as we were
already three hours behind, they sent a fire truck from the closest station and the one farther away
drove to cover that station.
- Just as the fire truck arrived, the pumper truck returned so we used both to cover the lighting since
the water truck carried four times the amount of water than the fire truck which had no way of
getting water close by due to all the frozen pipes.
- By the time we lit the lane, it was already the time I was originally supposed to be walking, so the
public who showed up to see walk agreed to stay for another two hours until the coals were ready.
We had to readjust the way we lit the fire to get it to burn faster, which also meant that it was
burning hotter than planned.
- About fifteen minutes before the coals were ready to prepare for the walk, it was as though the
skies opened up and a few drops of rain fell followed by a torrential downpour. It was 8:00PM and
now pitch black, so we didn't even see it coming. The storm blew in with rain, snow, sleet and strong
winds that whipped around in the rodeo grounds causing sparks and embers from the lane to blow
about a hundred feet in the air in every direction. Luckily, I had an extra cord of cedar that we could
throw on top to protect the coals until it stopped raining and then just throw them off again. The heat
from them burning would stop any rain from reaching the coals, but since everything had been going
so well before the storm, my brother, who had the keys to the truck of wood, had walked away with
them to the nearest restaurant. We then had to get two other trucks to do relays of wood. While one
truck was being unloaded on the fire, the other was loading with more wood. Every second counted
if I was still going to walk that night which was a challenge with the wind changing directions
constantly, blowing sparks and smoke in our faces. We would see an opening between the sparks,
run in to the lane and drop as much wood as we could on it before the wind would change direction.
There was just enough time between wind shifts to get back out as we stumbled through the smoke
to grab more wood and repeat the process until the lane was covered again.
- We put every last piece of wood we had on the lane, so all we could do at that point was stand
back and wait. During the rain, the temperature of the coals only dropped down to 1454 degrees
Fahrenheit. The wood we put on would only buy us another 45 minutes, so we started to make
preparations to come back the next day and start all over again. Just then. the rains began to lighten
up and we could see the moon trying to shine through for the first time. We then had the firemen
move their truck to block the wind, along with the pumper truck and two others. With a light rain I
could still walk, so I quickly trained everyone on lining up along the lane of 161 feet. The plan was to
all run in at once, flick out the big logs first since any smaller wood that hadn't turned to coals could
act like a branding iron on the bottom of the foot, and possibly cut though the skin if stepped on the
wrong way. When you do this process, it creates a lot of smoke, so I knew in order to regain our
eyesight and breath, we would have to have a two minute break before we would do the final pat
down of the coals. From the data we collected in our test area, I knew I only had 15 minutes to
accomplish all of this before the coals would drop below 1100 degrees.
- While training for this process, the rain stopped completely, the sky cleared to reveal the stars
shining down upon us, then the wind. Everyone who had come to watch and who disappeared during
the rain suddenly reappeared. We were so amazed to see them, I walked over to them, thanked
them and told them that the walk would still go ahead but would be delayed even more now so that
the fire could regain its heat. It did, after a while, get back up to 1639 degrees Fahrenheit. They had
already been waiting an additional two hours beyond the time the walk was originally supposed to be
and when I told them they would have to wait another 30 minutes and they could go back to their
vehicles to stay warm, they all said, 'no way - they were there to support me and standing there was
nothing compared to what they just saw us go through to save the coals in the rain, through smoke,
sparks and getting soaked in the process.' There were over 70 people attending and it was truly
amazing to have them there. Their cheering and support really helped me become more focused to
do the walk.
- When I started the walk, the temperature was at 1241 degrees Fahrenheit and even with my
walking across the coals twice which broke them up a bit, the temperature only fell to 1209...For a
total of 294 feet, 44 feet past the prior record...but while I was being congratulated at the end, the
temperature climbed back up to over 1300 Fahrenheit due to the heat in the ground. Afterwards, the
firemen emptied their entire truck and foam onto the lane in an effort to put the coals out, but as they
were still smoking and steam was rising from the ground when they were done, the pumper truck
was emptied in an attempt to put the lane out completely and that still didn't cool off the ground
because the next day right after we cleaned the site, it started to snow, but where the lane had been,
the snow continued to melt. The ground was still heated since the clay sand base held the heat and
made for a hotter than normal walk.
All the best to you and your families and may the positive energy in your lives continue to grow.
| Please note that all these photos were supplied by Sarah McGinnis, Reporter for the Calgary Herald |
| Video of Fire Walk available February 7, 2007 next Fire Healing Walk for you is 04/22/2007 |
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