LAKE HAVASU — The Lake Havasu City Fire Department reports a local resident was fatally burned during a fire at a health care facility. Personnel responded to the business in the 1800 block of Mesqutie Avenue at about 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9.
“The first arriving crews identified smoke throughout the building and an intact hyperbaric chamber that appeared to have had a flash fire in the chamber with one patient inside,” a news release said. “The deceased patient, identified as 43-year-old Lake Havasu City resident Walter Foxcroft, was the only subject injured in the incident.”
Foxcroft was pronounced dead by arriving emergency crews.
The Today’s News-Herald reported that Foxcroft is a Doctor, and that he was using the chamber when the flash fire occurred at his Havasu Health and Hyperbarics enterprise.
“The incident was turned over to police detectives and fire investigators,” the press release said. “The cause of the flash fire and circumstances surrounding it are under investigation.
