Third Degree Burn

More details of 'mine bombing' incident emerge

SANTAQUIN — Some of the four college students most seriously injured while throwing Molotov cocktails down an abandoned mine shaft reportedly suffered second- and third-degree burns on their legs, arms and faces.

As of Monday, the four remained hospitalized, some at the Intermountain Burn Center at the University of Utah. The Utah County Sheriff's Office did not have an update on the victims' conditions as of Tuesday.

But a person with knowledge of the weekend incident, who asked to remain anonymous, said some of the burns were very serious. The victims were both male and female, according to the source.

A total of 12 people were injured in the incident that happened about 11 p.m. Saturday. The practice of "mine bombing" has been occurring for years, according to those familiar with it. College students, many from Brigham Young University, go to abandoned mine shafts and drop Molotov cocktails, or gasoline filled bottles, through the openings of the rebar grates blocking the entrances.

Videos of mine bombings, many from Utah, have been posted on YouTube for several years. In some videos, a large crowd can be seen gathered along the perimeter of the mine entrance while others pour gasoline over the entrance and ignite with either a flare, fireworks or matches, creating a fireball.

In Saturday night's incident, the source told the Deseret News there were initially two groups of students at the mine dropping pop bottles filled with about an inch of gasoline into the mine.

"They were taking turns and each of the cocktails had a fuse on them. … They would light the fuse and drop the bomb … then by the time the explosion happened, the bomb was 100 or 200 feet (at least some 'safe' distance) below them," according to the source who talked to a person involved in the event.

While the source admitted what was happening was potentially dangerous and not a wise thing to do, he said the first groups were making efforts to minimize the danger. A third group later showed up, and that's when things started to get out of hand, the source said.

"They soaked a pillow in gas and had some sort of fuse attached … then lit and dropped it. It also fell to a safe distance before it burned up in a big fireball. …  Then another person from that third group had a gallon milk jug with a fuse and they lit it and dropped it without any problem."

But after that, the group brought out a 5-gallon water cooler filled with three to four gallons of gasoline, according to the source.

Natural Symptoms First Second and Third Degree Burns

A burn is a type of skin lesion caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation or friction. [1] [2] [3] Most burns affect only the skin (epidermis and dermis).

Rarely, the deeper tissues such as muscles, bones and blood vessels, may also be injured. Burns can be treated with first aid in an environment outside the hospital, or may require more specialized treatment,

such as those available in specialized burn center.
The management of burns is important because they are common, painful and can lead to disfiguring and disabling scars, amputation of affected parts or death in severe cases.

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Causes

EarthSky spoke with Scott Burns. He is a geologist and landslide expert at Portland State University. He said: It's like a baseball analogy.

Three strikes and you're out. In general, you will have a fairly steep slope. That is one.The strike is weak soils and weak geological units, the rocks. What the site is central to the failure.

All you have to do is add the trigger. The third attack is usually a large amount of water that rain has fallen in a very short period of time, or an earthquake. Three strikes you're out - and have a landslide.

Burns said that landslides occur throughout the world. But most of the time, people are not prepared for them. And so we have a lot of loss of life that not only want have.In U.S. Each year, landslides cause an average of 25 deaths and 1 to 2 million in damages, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. EarthSky Burns said:

For example, as homeowners, usually the most important element that has to be going home. And if your home if beaten or slides down the hill, all is lost.

Symptoms

The different degrees of burns are different types of symptoms that can tell what degree of burns you may have. Here are some of the individual symptoms of each type of burn and has some of the common symptoms that we all share: First-degree burns

characterized by redness of the skin accompanied by slight pain and possible swelling.

When you have second degree burns, he looks a little swollen skin, blisters forming pain, severe peeling of skin. Second-degree burns will develop a bright pink cherry red or glossy.

Third Degree Burn

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