Masked youths participate in the "fireball festival", a battle that pits two teams of locals against each other in Nejapa, El Salvador. The traditional festival, created in 1922, is held in honour of Saint Jeronimo and recalls the 1658 eruption of the San Salvador volcano that destroyed Nejapa.
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00:00And here we do the fire pole game.
00:20It is a tradition in which we remember the eruption of the volcano, which, well, our
00:24ancestors, 102 years ago, began to remember that eruption in which they had to run away
00:31from Nixapa, where the previous settlements of Anejapa were, and we remember that, we remember
00:37the lives of these people, we remember what they lived, we remember life, what it means
00:43to move forward after adversity, and basically that is the main theme, so to speak, or the
00:50main way or way in which we celebrate.