TWO MEN WHO WERE VISITING A FIRM THAT BUILDS and services race cars are in the hospital with critical burn injuries today. They were seriously injured Sunday night around 9 pm when they attempted to “barrel ride” across the parking lot. The Skagett Valley Herald, reporting from Sedro-Woolley, Washington, explains for us:
The men, from out of the state, had placed about four gallons of methanol in a 55 gallon barrel, sat on top of it, then lit it on fire, Sedro-Woolley Fire Chief Dean Klinger said. “Apparently it was supposed to slide across the parking lot like a rocket,” Klinger said. “Instead it blew up.”
One of the ends of the barrel flew 120 feet outside of Funk Racing at 631 Sunset Park Drive, Klinger said.
The men were severely burned in the explosion, but were responsive when paramedics and firefighters arrived just before 9 p.m.
After being transported to the hospital in Sedro-Woolley, they were later transferred to a burn center in Seattle. Presumably, the barrel was totalled.
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