Students injured in flash fire at Minnesota school science lab

Published December 02, 2011, 06:48 AM

By: Mary Lynn Smith and Abby Simons, Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT

Dane Neuberger was front and center when the classroom science experiment blew up, setting his face on fire.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (MCT) — Dane Neuberger was front and center when the classroom science experiment blew up, setting his face on fire.

"I was on fire," said 15-year-old Neuberger, who is being treated at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis for second-degree burns to his face, neck and right hand. "People were screaming, and everyone just ran out."

Three other students treated for burns at the hospital were released. (More....)