[Vision2020] Explosion at University of Idaho sends multiple people to hospital

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (April 14, 2017) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

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Explosion at University of Idaho sends multiple people to hospital
UI club was testing rocket fuel near steam plan on campus

An explosion outside the University of Idaho steam plant on the corner of Sixth and Line streets just before 10 p.m. Thursday sent four people to the hospital, according to the university. 

Daniel Ewart, UI vice president for infrastructure, said in a press conference that one person was in critical condition and three were in stable condition. He believes they were transported to Gritman Medical Center.

Grant Thurman, a member of the Northwest Organization of Rocket Engineers, a relatively new UI club, said the club tried testing rocket fuel the club created. He said one of the co-presidents lit the fuel and an explosion followed. Thurman said the man who lit the fuel was wearing a face shield and club members watching wore eye protection. The other co-president who stood near the explosion wore eye protection but not a face shield, Thurman said. 

The man who lit the fuel received most of the damage from the explosion but was in good spirits, Thurman said.

No damage was reported at the steam plant and the campus is now safe, Ewart said.

Per standard protocol, the FBI did investigate the scene Thursday night.

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Officials from the Moscow Police Department, Moscow Volunteer Fire Department and the University of Idaho talk in a parking lot at the UI where four students from the UI chapter of the Northwest Organization of Rocket Engineers were injured while testing a rocket fuel on Thursday in Moscow.

http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/UI/DN_041417_Explosion.jpg

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Tom Hansen
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