Participants are not harmed since they wear a fire proximity suit with forced-air respirators.
Numerous other safeguards are built into the system to ensure the players are not subject to direct flame exposure or inhalation of superheated air.
It was retired in 2013 at Burning Man, where all the components were gathered into a pile and a piano was dropped on it.
Members of Interpretive Arson began the project in 2005,[1] when they received a grant from BORG2, an offshoot of artists associated with the West Coast art festival Burning Man.
[4] The game reappeared at Burning Man 2006 and 2007,[5][6] and occasionally in Interpretive Arson's warehouse in Oakland, until 2007.