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Show Burn Victim Recovering After Fire Jon Green, victim of a (butane explosion in a local service station last Friday, is home recovering from bums received in that accident. acci-dent. Mr. Green was released releas-ed from the hospital on (Monday, after receiving extensive ex-tensive treatment for second sec-ond and third degree burns on boith arms and the upper (parts, of his neck and face. Reports indicate that Mr. iGreen was filling a butane tank on a pickup truck from She larger storage tank at the station when the accident acci-dent occurred. An apparent malfunction' of the guages on the master unit caused the handle of the tank to reach a hiigh temperatiure. When Mr. Green grabbed the handle han-dle to shut off the tank, he burned his hand in order to get the tank shut off, he took a rag and tried again to turn the handle. The rag evidently caused static ele-ictric'ity ele-ictric'ity which started the fire, injuring the man. |