Crowds Celebrate End of Year by Dodging Fireworks in El Salvador
Residents in the town of Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador, participated in a tradition on December 28, in which they celebrate the end of the year by dodging fireworks shot from wooden figures shaped like bulls.
Video recorded by Ivan Manzano shows people jumping about in the street while a person runs around with a wooden bull that shoots fireworks.
“It is a dangerous but adrenaline-filled celebration to say goodbye to the year,” Manzano told Storyful. “Some are a little burned, but they can still hug their family and friends at the end of the year,” he added.
Manzano told Storyful that the tradition they like to call ‘Toros de Fuego,’ is a celebration that consists of launching little gunpowder explosions from wooden bull figures, as people play together trying to not get burned.
The celebration is reminiscent of the ‘Fire Bull’ at Pamplona, Spain’s Running of the Bulls, which features a similar gunpowder-laden bull. Credit: Ivan Manzano via Storyful
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