Hand sanitizer may have caused girl to burst into flames at hospital

Should we be concerned that this is the second story today of someone bursting into flames? In this case, hand sanitizer may have caused an 11-year-old girl to catch fire in an Oregon hospital. Ireland Lane, a cancer survivor, was painting in her bed at Portland's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, where she was being treated for an unrelated injury when her T-shirt seemed to spontaneously combust. Her dad sprang into action, smothering the flames with his own body. Unfortunately, Ireland already had third-degree burns on her chest, neck, arms and ears and is receiving skin grafts. One possible explanation: a static electric shock from Lane's bedding ignited ethyl alcohol fumes from the hand sanitizer used to clean her side table. [Source]

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