Six treated for burns after accident at Frisco’s Lone Star High School

A nurse and firefighters were attending to a student with medical needs in Lone Star High School’s fieldhouse when an emergency oxygen device exploded, officials said.

Officials say the nurse was treating a student and attempting to change canisters when the device exploded. Emergency crews were at the school around 10:20 a.m. for the medical emergency call.

When the device exploded, it released a substance that officials compared to a liquefied soda ash with a high pH level. That sprayed the student’s sibling, the nurse, an assistant principal along with paramedics and fire fighters.

The Frisco fire department’s HAZMAT unit arrived at the school just before 11 a.m. The other students in the physical education class in the fieldhouse were evacuated. Those sprayed were transported to an area hospital and treated for minor skin burns and have since been released. The nurse is back at work at the school.

More at http://friscoblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/six-treated-for-burns-after-accident-at-friscos-lone-star-high-school.html/ .