Erfurt, Oct. 17 (BUS): The world’s largest image created from burning torches lit up an airport in eastern Germany on Saturday night, as a club set a record for children’s charity.
About 15,000 lamps were set on fire on this occasion at Gera-Luminitz Airport, 14,901 of which succeeded.
The torches were attached to 14 kilometers of wire and burned electrically to create a flaming image of the club’s coat of arms, according to German news agency dpa.
Judge Rolf Allerdissen confirmed that the JIRA club’s achievement won an entry in the German Records Institute’s record. This was the seventh time the group broke a record for the We4Kids charity.
The club broke the previous record set in 2018 by the youth firefighting team of Ellwangen in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, which included 8,286 bonfires.
Allerdissen said the new record will be entered into the Records Institute of the German Archives. These archives already contain about 800 world records, 16 of which are placed by the eastern state of Thuringia, where the airport is also located.
The institute collects and evaluates all kinds of offers from the world of the German language, as the German equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records.
The Rekordteam was created by We4Kids and has set other records in the past, building the highest stack of tires and the longest marble track, for example.
The proceeds help families with children with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare disease.
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