playing with fire, but instead the accident only reignited her passion. do i want to quit that world, do i want to continue? if i was looking inside of me, it s something i really like to do, and i couldn t stop. shortly after her recovery, ayesha s back dazzling fans with fire. i m amazed that she continues to do it, to be able to come back after having such an accident and do it again i think is a testament to her professionalism. that said, ayesha has a few words of caution. in every show i always tell the people don t try that at home because it s very dangerous. coming up a nasty crash sends a race car flying. when he went upside down, the car burst into flames. and later, you won t believe who s behind the wheel of this
towards it and then blew. ayesha is suddenly engulfed in flames. there was just a big ball of fire. the fire just go like ten feet higher than me. it was just the brightest thing in the night sky that really got everybody to wow. instead of blowing it out in front of her, a gust of wind blows the fire back in her face. i feel the wind and at this point, the flame came in my face, and i wasn t able to control it any more. it seemed like a part of the act for a second, then when she put her arm down with the torch, you could see the flame was still in her face. everybody just kind of stopped breathing for a minute. the next 30 seconds are a slow motion nightmare for ayehsa as she struggles to put out the fire. the fire was turning around my head, in my hair, my shoulder.
fine except for some surface burns which clear up in two weeks. ayesha herself wonders if someone caught the moment on camera. i wanted to know what happened. and if i m able to see that in video, i will be able to watch it and try to realize what happened. when sherry learns that ayesha is fine, she sends her the video. it took me a long time to track down ayesha. and i finally did hear from her by e-mail. and she did want to see the video. scrutinizing the incident, ayesha realizes a sudden change of wind was to blame. when the wind just turned, i saw that on the video. at this point with the wind the fire just came back in my face. the woman who burst into flames and the woman who caught it on camera have never met until this day. hi, sherry. after that night of trauma, ayesha might have stopped
really crave. performing that night are the members of carnival abraxas, a circus troupe. the high light will be a french canadian fire artist named ayesha seveny. it s kind of magical. ayesha has years of training behind her. she learned the practice from her father, also a performer. and has entertained crowds all over canada. now all eyes are on the stage at cunningham s. we were ready for a nice show. everybody was having a blast. a night you just didn t want to end. as the performance begins, sherry turns on her camera. i wasn t sure i d be able to get anything because it was very dark and my camera doesn t have any type of lighting. so i just kind of held it up and we ll see what happens. andrew dumais stands at the edge of the stage with a fire extinguisher. because i served four years on the hudson fire department, i
i was trying to remove it. was removing the fire here, it starts another place. so okay, something is wrong here. it wasn t stopping. just seemed like the flames weren t going out. like those birthday candles that go out and it just doesn t go. in fact, the fire is spreading. the audience can only look on in shock. i went from being fascinated and intrigued to being horrified. the mood of the crowd completely changed from excitement and fun to shock and a bit of horror. as the fire threatened to consume her, ayesha rushes off the stage. there is nothing except that people was screaming around me. oh, what s happened, what s happened? andrew rushes toward her with the fire extinguisher. i could see her face, it was on fire. something i ve never seen in my life. four years on the fire department we put out houses, we put out cars, we don t put out human beings. in seconds the extinguisher puts out the flames.