TEAM building activities can be an important way to improve a company's culture - but things appear to have gone a little astray at a gathering in Zurich, Switzerland last week where employees of a business are now bonding over the shared experience of burnt flesh and wound treatment.
The group was undertaking a fire walking ritual during a corporate retreat, traversing hot coals in bare feet, when apparently things went wrong.
A call to the Zurich Protection and Rescue operations centre saw a large contingent of paramedics deployed, comprising 10 ambulances, emergency medical teams and multiple police officers.
25 people were treated on site, 13 of whom were briefly hospitalised, with the organiser of the activity telling local media he had warned participants not to "stroll, run or hop across" the fire but instead walk steadily using a "military-step" like gait..
"It could have been a great event," he said.
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