In Florida we had outgrown our room, so I conducted children’s church in a tent. We were doing a skit that involved a birthday cake for Uncle Hershel (one of our characters). The action took place as we lit the candles and began to sing Happy Birthday. I had taken the fire extinguisher from my garage and given it to a character dressed as a fireman. On cue he ran in from the back of the tent and turned the fire extinguisher on the cake. He was screaming something about Uncle Hershel having too many candles on his cake thus creating a fire hazard.
I had no idea how much pressure there was in my fire extinguisher. The fireman blew the cake to smithereens. Blasted the small table against the back of the tent. The sulfur stream then bounced off the tent wall and covered about 100 kids. We evacuated the tent and later send scores of kids home with sulfur on them.
Roger Fields
