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Kenneth Payne, professor, Fine Arts, performed an iron pour titled “Fire & Ice: A Circus Inferno” on July 14 at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center in West Seneca. Payne and team members Carley Jean Hill, William Cavanaugh, and Dan Matheson poured 2,700-degree molten iron into blocks of optically clear ice, augmented by special effects of gun powder and magnesium. The pyrotechnic event has also been performed in Finland, Latvia, and Estonia.