Woman, child injured in Fla. hyperbaric explosion
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Posted: 3:24 PM May 1, 2009
Woman, child injured in Fla. hyperbaric explosion
A woman and child were airlifted to a South Florida trauma center after an explosion in a hyperbaric chamber facility near Fort Lauderdale.
Reporter: Associated Press
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LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — A woman and child were airlifted to a South Florida trauma center after an explosion in a hyperbaric chamber facility near Fort Lauderdale.

Broward County Sheriff's spokesman Mike Jachles says a deputy raced through heavy smoke and pulled the boy out of a chamber that seemed on fire. The woman, believed to be in her 50s, was rescued by fire crews.

Jachles said both victims were critically burned. Authorities did not immediately identify the two, but Jachles said it was not a mother and son.

Four blocks around the multilevel Lauderdale-by-the-Sea office building remained cordoned off hours after the explosion. Jachles says the hyperbaric facility was just one of several businesses that operated near the beach there, but officials were still gathering information about the kinds of treatment it offered.

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Posted by: Quinn Kirkland Location: Montana on May 13, 2009 at 08:45 PM

This is an unfortunate event. Our son has received treatments from this facility for the past 8 years. We travel all the way from Montana! The staff is friendly and very cautious before you are allowed to enter the chamber. I pray for the families involved an for the HBOC clinic that they may continue to help the many kids through treatments. Our son has greatly improved through oxygen. Though MD's may argue otherwise, I know it works because i have seen so many come and go from the center in better shape after the treatments.
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