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At Least 21 Treated For Burns After Attempting ‘Fire Walking’ at Tony Robbins Event

Jul. 21, 2012 12:36pm Jason Howerton

(The Blaze/AP) — Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that at least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second- or third-degree burns.

Robbins was hosting a 4-day gathering called “Unleash the Power Within” at the San Jose Convention Center. Witnesses say on Thursday, a crowd went to a park where 12 lanes of hot coals were on the grass.

At Least 21 Treated For Burns After Attempting Fire Walking at Tony Robbins Event

Tony Robbins (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Robbins’ website promotes “The Firewalk Experience” in which people walk on super-heated coals.

Witness Jonathan Correll says he heard “screams of agony.” He explained it was hard to watch as one young woman appeared to be in so much pain.

“I heard wails of pain, screams of agony,” he said. “It was horrific.”

Correll continued: “It was people seriously hurting, like they were being tortured… First one person, then a couple minutes later another one, and there was just a line of people walking on that fire. It was just bizarre, man.”

Henry Guasch, 19, said that after walking across the hot coals while chanting his mantra, “cool moss,” he felt powerful.

“Overcoming something like that, it’s a breakthrough,” he said, explaining that he slowed his pace at one point and got a minor burn.

Another fire walker, Andrew Brenner said the keys to making it across the coals without getting burned are faith and deep concentration.

“I did it before, didn’t get into the right state and got burned,” said Brenner. “I knew I wasn’t at my peak state. I didn’t take it as serious.”

Fire Capt. Reggie Williams says organizers had an open fire permit and emergency personnel were on standby.

“We discourage people from walking over hot coals,” Williams said.

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Also, for your viewing pleasure, a previous Tony Robbins fire walk can be viewed here:

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Skunkherder
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:28pm
Myth Busters did an episode on this.
They found that you had to let the coals burn down a bit to get a nice layer of ash on top, which acts as an insulator. When they walked at a slow even pace they had no problem, when one tried to go fast, he got burned.

Sounds like the people running it didn’t let it burn long enough before the people walked on it. It is not mind over matter, it is just science.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Crazy zealots.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:16pm
  21 burned by hot coals, all burned by Tony Robins.
  
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- BryanB
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Hi Monk……
  
  You want the really egregious thing about this ????
  
  All those people that got burned, actually paid Tony Robbins money, to hospitalize themselves. And then they blamed themselves for not being worthy.
  
  “And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
  
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- black9897
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:41pm
  If they want to clear the burns up all they have to say is shallow Hal wants a gal.
  
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- The_Pointy_End
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pm
  What kind of dumb-dumb thinks they can change/control science with the power of their mind – LOL. I would call this a learning lesson.
  
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- Wyatt's Torch
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:38pm
  Stoopid newbies…they forgot to first soak their feet in Tony Robbins Sure Fire Magical foot balm, elixir, and laxitive solution (made from 100% organic snake oil)
  
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:28pm
One of my FB friends went to this thing. I hope he’s okay.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:09am
  I never could stand that Tony Robbins guy. He even LOOKS like a con man. It’s just a bunch of stupid new age magical thinking. “Think Positive”. “Think Happy Thought Boys n’ Girls!” Gimme a friggin’ break!
  
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- Baja
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:48pm
  If he’s really a friend, he needs an intervention.
  
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:23pm
Avoid hardwood coals. Mesquite and oak would make for toasty digits I would think. Was Oprah there?

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- bigdaddyt46
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:10am
  i just signed up for my first firewalk. my only caveat was that i be allowed to tie porthouse steakes to each foot
  
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- EyeofthePatriot
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:20pm
  LOLOL! Best.Comment.Yet!
  
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Meyvn
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:21pm
Dumbass alert!

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- scuba13
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Once again adding Encinom and alcohol spells disaster for the Encinom family.
  
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Seagal45
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:12pm
Wow people walking on hot coals got burned? Ya gotta be kidding me. Stupid is as stupid does.

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Mikev5
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:35pm
People that pay to go to these kinds of things… Self-help crap are addicted to them and they don’t usually find what they want they find small amounts of soul healing but never what they expected so they continue to go to them looking for that all embracing final self-help program. I have a friend that has attended so many of these and I have never seen a change in him other than thousands of dollars vanishing into the promoters pockets. But he continues to take these programs and feels happy for a few months. He always feels better and healed but then again he continues to go to them so is he really getting any cure I mean real think on that.

I say a sucker is born every second as Mister Fields always said.

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- randy
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:09pm
  And yet, person after person kept walking?
  
  MORONS!
  
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- Isitover
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:13pm
  You nailed it. I have a relative who spent lots of money, and 6 weeks of her life at one of these places. Came back with a ” Master’s Degree”. Now she’s spreading the “new age” way of life for $90.00 a pop. She can’t explain, how the rest of us took 6 years of school to get our Master’s, and she only 6 weeks. ” But it’s the same degree”. That’s how smart they are.
  
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- randy
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:15pm
  An actually it was P. T. Barnum that said “A sucker is born every minute :)
  
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- Mikev5
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:39pm
  randy ok
  
  Is that correct ok I always like W.C. Feilds that guy was a crackup
  
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DoomsdayProphet
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:32pm
Blood on hands of Obama, Mitt and NRA!
Condolences are empty words – what actions are you gonna take?
By Editorial Board / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

A story on drudge, this title. Can I ask who Editorial Board is?

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- LRC
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:52pm
  Ummmmmm, wait…what? Obama, Romney, NRA were at the fire walking event?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:26pm
  LRC: No. But DOOM was sent on a Troll the Blaze assignment ….
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:26pm
Gives new meaning to carbon footprint.

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- MeteoricLimbo
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:33pm
  now that was funny Progressive. Thank you for the bit of humor today
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Literally.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:40pm
  @SLAYER
  
  You slay me ;-)
  
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- oicu814me2
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:56pm
  HA HA HA
  HA. Now thats funny right there, i dont care how you are.
  
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:19pm
I got this visual of lemmings.

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- Chrono_Sleuth
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:28am
  That’s exactly what it is. Group behavior can be very dangerous. Easy to lose your self in the guiding flow of the masses. Kind of sad really, but we’re all prone to this once we think we are a part of something grander than ourselves.
  
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tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:18pm
Matthew 6‘Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*

You don’t need Robbins, a fistful of dollars, red hot coals, or feet afaire to praise Jesus in your private setting. Sheeple need to stop trusting all these imposters.

5 ‘And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*

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- JustPeachy
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:31pm
  Tommy, Robbins isn’t even trying to promote Christianity. But it is a type of “religion” of sorts. It’s one in which people rely upon themselves and themselves alone–also known as “humanism.” “Humanism” merely comes under various names and guises, but it’s basically and totally “self-reliance.” Essentially they are their own gods, masters, saviors, etc. Oldest line in the Book: “I can do this myself.” And yes, just like cults, it has its goats!
  
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- tommyg524
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:01pm
  ok so would you also please tell me what you thing of the current status quo in the u.s.a., assuming you live here somewhere…would you rather live in rural 1949 or in urban big box 2012, i want to know, and WHY, sincerely, thanks for your gentle response
  
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- tommyg524
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:15pm
  hey just peachy, I know he’s not trying to support Christianity, why do you have to label it? Humanism? Where did you pull that from? in other words, you believe HUMANS, the same lowly life form who eat eachother in the name of profit to expell a religion which would, what… serve all in the name of what, conformism?? Talk to me junior. Talk to me about the corporate states of america which produces nothing now but pain now, can you say “batman”? Can you say “I lost my home?”….”my job”, my future? My family? I don’t want to be dependant on anyone, but I have found myself dependant on the corporate states of america. Of which, or whom, i have had to wake up at 0500 every morning to support. Can you honestly say “Thanks corporate america for all you’ve done “? Really? if you can then you’re part of the problem, brainwashed completely, or just rich off of the rest of us.
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:17pm
I guess they did not have enough faith.

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tommyg524
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:12pm
Jesus said, in so many words, to go into your private room to pray, not to be a hypocrit and shout
from the pulpit displaying your supposed powers. This is an example of brainwashed sheeple following some human brainwasher. How stupid, just stupid. Read the New Testament. Pry in private and from your heart, you don’t need some other human to validate your sincere relationship with Jesus.

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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pm
I heard that barefoot hot coal walking, eating glass, sleeping on a bed of nails, and the trading of Ron Paul Congressional Softball cards (personally signed by Paul, with the words HOME RUN) is in store for all Ron Paul acolytes in Tampa….

Sounds like a hootenanny!!

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- tommyg524
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:19pm
  You lose.
  
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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:20pm
  Okay, that was funny.
  
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- LazloWhoopingcough
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:15pm
  Yeah, that was funny as hell.
  
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skippy6
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pm
They forgot to go really fast and put ice on their feet!!!!!!

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- skippy6
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Did Penn and Teller cover this on the Bullsh@t show??
  
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:11pm
Pay me a ton of money and I will let you walk across some flaming coals all you want.

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- chips1
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Was this declared one of Obama’s “shoe free zones”?
  
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The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:10pm
In some parts of the World this is called the Santa Clause test.

Those who have been nice don’t get any coal; those who have been naughty, well….

Sooooo, JZS; don’t try this. You’ve been a very naughty boy. LOL

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bnewbs1
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:10pm
When you play with fire……………………..

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B4B
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:09pm
“Another fire walker, Andrew Brenner said the keys to making it across the coals without getting burned are faith and deep concentration.”

No, the key is to keep moving, go fast, thereby limiting the time your flesh is in contact with red-hot coals.
LMAO, for me the take-away line was “We discourage people from walking over hot coals”

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- The-Monk
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:17pm
  @B4B
  
  I asked a fire-walker what the trick was. He said to wet the feet then let get a coating of grey, already burned, coal dust to coat the feet. Then walk very fast. The coating prevents the hot coals from touching the flesh before you are able to take the next step.
  
  Sometimes the grey dust falls off….
  
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gsplgtr
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:04pm
Tony Robbins was last seen running out the back door with an arm full of cash laughing hysterically!

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strangerlsd3
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:00pm
Shallow Hal wants a gal…

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nzkiwi
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pm
There seems to be a never-ending supply of stupid people.

Perhaps this is how the cults get their adherents, by tapping into this fountain of imbecility.

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Psychosis
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pm
you cant fix stupid

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Obviously they missed the memo Obamacare hasn’t kicked in yet your on your own.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:48pm
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Why would anyone blindly follow this guy, and walk on hot coals?

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- Gonzo
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pm
  I think they are just looking for a higher power…in the wrong place.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:03pm
  O bozo thinks he can walk on fire and water.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:28pm
  SCREW:
  Now that’s a pay per view moment. Rule #1. He can’t walk faster than a Prius.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:47pm
The Coal was also hosting an event called, “Unleash the Power Within”.

Sounds like a scheduling issue…..

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CatB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:43pm
After one or two .. who are the idiots who followed? .. for that matter what is wrong with number one and two. I can’t stand to listen to this guy .. let alone pay him money to be physically injured.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:24pm
  These simpletons are most likely obamazombies so they have no sense.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:35pm
  You are correct .. people who need someone to tell them how to run their life .. can’t figure it out on their own .. I had help also .. it is called “The Bible” .
  
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