911 call on Ohio State frat video: "They set their pledges on fire"

Police released a 911 telephone reporting a video that appears to amusement two panicked men engulfed successful flames in an alleged hazing incidental astatine an Ohio State University fraternity implicit the weekend.

"They acceptable their pledges connected fire, and there's a video of it. And I conscionable privation to nonstop it successful truthful that thing gets done astir it," the caller told Columbus constabulary dispatch connected Sunday, a time aft constabulary said the incidental took place. "They enactment gasoline connected him and lit him connected fire, and past conscionable benignant of stood determination and laughed."

The caller said they received the video successful a sorority radical chat, but they weren't determination successful person.

Columbus constabulary connected Tuesday besides released a study of their preliminary probe into the incidental allegedly involving Ohio State's section of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which said "two victims participated successful an enactment that was dangerous" and that it resulted successful 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns.

The study did not place the victims.

Police spoke to SAE President George Limperis, who gave a statement, according to the redacted report, but nary different details were provided.

Ohio State announced Monday it had temporarily suspended the fraternity portion authorities analyse the shocking video.

The video, which has since been wide shared connected societal media, shows a ample radical of people, galore wearing the school's reddish and achromatic colors, lasting astir a antheral sitting connected the crushed with his sweatpants connected fire. The antheral appears to lunge astatine a 2nd idiosyncratic successful a panic and tackle him. The different man's covering besides catches fire, and they some rotation connected the crushed attempting to region their apparel portion immoderate bystanders effort to help.

"The assemblage is alert of this highly concerning incident, and the individuals successful question are receiving aesculapian care," Ohio State University spokesperson Benjamin Johnson said successful a connection connected Monday. "Ohio State is committed to a harmless and steadfast situation and expects students and pupil organizations to uphold that committedness and the university's values."

In a abstracted connection connected Monday, Sigma Alpha Epsilon CEO Steve Mitchell said helium was alert of the video and was moving with assemblage officials and section instrumentality enforcement.

"Sigma Alpha Epsilon holds its collegiate members to precocious standards of behaviour and accountability. Behavior that violates these standards has nary spot successful our organization. We are committed to holding those liable accountable and volition instrumentality due enactment based connected the findings of the investigation," Mitchell said.

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