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It took Donald Awalt six months to put his GI Joe Halloweeen costume together,
ordering the components on the internet, and sewing and assembing them
piece by piece. It only took a few seconds for the whole thing to
go up in flames.
On Oct. 30, minutes after Awalt proudly displayed his creation at the
high school’s annual Spook Day assembly, a classmate set the costume
on fire and Awalt fought for his life.
"I stood up, and kids are screaming on the bleachers, and I ran
down the bleachers and stopped, dropped, and rolled," Awalt said
last night in his first interview since the incident. By telephone from
Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, where Awalt is being treated for third-degree burns,
he said he was at a loss to explain why a classmate tried not once but
three times to ignite his costume with a cigarette lighter.
from
the Boston Globe
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May 21st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Hey Donald is a very good friend of mine, and he told me that he was 15 when this happened!!
November 20th, 2006 at 7:12 am
I was there the day it happened. He was only a freshman…14, 15 at most. It was absolutely horrific. They had to get a helicopter in the school’s field to take him to Boston. The only reason he’s alive today is one of the teachers broke regulations and actually used the fire extinguisher.
At first, everyone thought it was pyrotechnics and it didn’t quite register what was happening, but it didn’t take long to realize what was going on as he ran down the bleachers from the very top. The image will forever be burned into my memory (pun unintentended).
The thing that got me was that even after everything, Donald still extended his hand, so to speak, in forgiveness of the boy that lit him on fire from behind. It blows your mind…
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