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Hauppauge FD/CIHVAC-Man burned on Rabro Drive

June 12, 1987 A 45 year old Centereach man at a Hauppauge job site was burned this morning after the pipe he was heating with a propane torch burst and sprayed him with a flammable liquid.

A witness saw the man running with his clothing on fire and threw a canvas tarp over him to smother the flames .

The victim was transported to Stony Brook University hospital by CIHVAC.

The pipe the victim was torching was steel and contained a tarlike substance. The pipe ruptured, spraying the material over the victim. The torch then ignited the material.

Smithtown Newws 6-18-1987.

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