LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ — One person is dead after a hyperbaric chamber caught fire in Lake Havasu City.
Officials say the victim, 43-year-old Walter Foxcroft, was inside the hyperbaric chamber along Mesquite Avenue just east of SR-95 when a flash fire occurred just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday.
Foxcroft was pronounced dead at the scene; no other people were injured in the fire, according to officials.
According to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a flash fire is a fire that spreads by means of a flame front rapidly through a diffuse fuel, like gas, dust, or the vapors of an ignitable liquired, without producing damaging pressure.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
