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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Death by cell phone
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:40:05 -0400 (EDT)

okay, she didn't die, but this is pretty scary anyway...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/01/exploding.phone/index.html

Girl burned when cell phone catches fire

Thursday, July 1, 2004 Posted: 10:15 PM EDT (0215 GMT)

(CNN) -- A 16-year-old California girl suffered second degree burns
Thursday when her cell phone caught fire in her back pocket, according to
the Ontario Fire Department.

The teenager was volunteering at an Ontario youth recreation center when
witnesses heard a loud "whooshing" sound, said Frank Huddleston, a fire
department investigator.

Huddleston said the victim didn't even know what was happening, and
witnesses said they thought it was fireworks.

Witness then saw her pocket explode with smoke and fire, he said.

The girl was in a kitchen and near a pot of water, so the flames were
quickly extinguished, Huddleston said.

The victim was transported to Chino Valley Medical Center where she was
treated and released with small second-degree burns to her right buttock.

The phone is a Verizon Kyocera, but because of damage investigators could
not tell the model number.

Ontario is east of Los Angeles near San Bernardino.





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