A college student in Utah started a fire on Sunday during an attempt to make rocket fuel.
Police officers and the fire department at Brigham Young University responded to a fire alarm in one of the dorms on Sunday at 4:30 p.m., where a series of fire sprinklers had gone off.
The student had been “making homemade rocket fuel on the stove when the volatile mixture suddenly exploded into a fireball,” the police said in a statement. “The flames from the explosion had engulfed the walls and ceiling around the stove, and the intense heat tripped the fire sprinkler system.”
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Firefighters arrived at the scene and put the fire out quickly. Nobody was hurt, police said, although some residents of the dorm were displaced due to the flooding caused by the incident.
“Please keep your experiments in the lab and supervised by trained professionals,” BYU police emphasized.
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Police were still investigating the incident on Monday and did not reveal why the student had created rocket fuel in his kitchen. The fiery explosion resulted in “extensive damage” and forced 22 students to relocate in order to allow for cleanup, police reported.
