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It is often called ritual theatre for its electrifying drama, featuring daring acts like fire-walking, diving into burning embers, chanting occult verses, and prophesying.

Finally, the researchers put the shells over embers to slowly heat the mixture, adding small amounts of ash to boost viscosity and volume.

Should an ember land at the bottom, fire can can climb uphill on both sides.

In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in red-hot embers.

Experts still disagree over whether homes can be completely fireproofed in a wind-driven ember fire.