Dear Queenie,
I read in the newspaper about children who make their Carnival or other costumes out of newspaper. My God! Don’t the adults in charge of them know how dangerous this is?
Commercially-made costumes, like for Halloween and all, have to be specially treated to make them fireproof, or at least fire resistant, no matter what they are made of – fabric, paper, whatever. I doubt the same can be said for these homemade paper costumes.
All it would take would be one careless person with a lit cigarette and maybe a little puff of wind and some poor kid(s) would go up in flames like fireworks on New Year’s Eve.
Queenie, what will it take, a tragedy like happened to Afoo, to make people think about the risks they are taking?—Appalled
Dear Appalled,
You have given us all food for thought today. I hope the Carnival committees and school authorities will take proper note. Thank you for writing.
