EXETER TWP, Pa. – Cheers, banners, and everyone in black… all traditions of Exeter Township Senior High School’s Homecoming Football Game.<\/p>\n
But there’s one tradition that after Thursday night, will never happen again.<\/p>\n
“We were on the one hill, and we were watching as they go to ignite it, and boom,” said Ashyln Szweda, a senior at Exeter Township Senior High School.<\/p>\n
The bonfire lit with the Exeter Township Volunteer Firefighters at the end of the annual homecoming parade…<\/p>\n
Turned into an explosion.<\/p>\n
“You really did feel it more than you heard it. And then you saw the pieces come flying,” said Szweda.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the school district says at least one person was hit by debris but not seriously hurt<\/p>\n
“It’s tragic that someone had to go through something like that, especially like having a fun moment,” said Joselyn Mendez, a student at Exeter Township Senior High School.<\/p>\n
The district will be discontinuing the homecoming parade bonfire for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
Students we spoke with say it’s sad to see a longtime tradition go.<\/p>\n
“It kind of sucks for, like, the younger generations. It’s a shame they’ll miss out on it,” said Szweda.<\/p>\n
“I’m just glad that we got to experience it at least one last time. But it’s definitely unfortunate that future generations won’t,” said Chase Zeignfuse, a senior at Exeter Township Senior High School.<\/p>\n
But due to the safety risks, say they support putting the tradition to rest.<\/p>\n
“This kind of took it a little too far. And it is a safety hazard if they do it again,” said Szweda.<\/p>\n
“We’re never gonna experience it again, but I understand because something happening like that is a big risk,” said Adriana Miceli, a student at Exeter Township Senior High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXETER TWP, Pa. – Cheers, banners, and everyone in black… all traditions of Exeter Township Senior High School’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[94274,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-294608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-exeter-township-senior-high-school","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}