Fireball Festival' in El Salvador commemorates historic volcano eruption

Masked youths participate in the "Fireball festival", a battle that pit two teams of locals against each other in Nejapa, El Salvador.

The traditional festival, created in 1922, takes place every year on August 31. Local churches and the faithful have embraced the tradition with urban legend saying that the hot lava that flowed from the volcano was actually the local Christian Saint Jeronimo fighting the devil with balls of fire.,