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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:31:20 -0400
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Subject: Two students injured in flash fire at IPFW lab
IPFW = Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090908/NEWS02/
909080337/1001
FORT WAYNE, Ind.
Article published Sep 8, 2009
Two students injured in flash fire at IPFW lab
A dental-research study at IPFW turned dangerous Tuesday morning when
two students were injured in an ethanol flash fire.
The Fort Wayne Fire Department was called to a third-floor biology
laboratory around 11:45 a.m. where they found one female student with
first- and second-degree burns on her face and hands and a male
student, who grabbed a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. He was
treated at the scene for minor burns to his arm and leg.
Spokeswoman Susan Alderman said the woman was taken to St. Joseph
Hospital=92s burn unit.
Other students were in the lab at the time, Alderman said, but no one
else was injured. The lab received minor damage.
Alderman said the woman was working on a dental study, not associated
with IPFW, at the time of the fire. She did not know what that
experiment included.
The fire department said chemicals being used in the experiment caused
the fire, according to a news release.
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