The newly released footage of the horrible fire set on Michael Jackson's hair during the filming of a spot for Pepsi in 1984 suggests that the video's director, Bob Giraldi, was responsible for the fire and the burns that left Michael Jackson nearly bald and suffering.

"What happened is that the talent, Michael, was told by [Giraldi] to stand there and look more majestic, so subsequently he stood under the sparks instead of being half way down the ramp when the pyrotechnics went off," former LA City Fire Department Capt. Donald Donester, who was an eyewitness to the disaster, told Access Hollywood.

"He was actually under the pyrotechnics when they went off. Subsequently, you know, catching his hair on fire."






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Donester said the hair products Jackson was wearing might have actually slowed the burning.

"Hair product may not exacerbate it sometimes. It might have retarded the effect," he told Access. "What was burning on Michael was almost like a candle effect where fumes were burning and not the hair. So that may have retarded the hair from being burned as quickly."




 

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