Medical Spotlight 7/12/10 "Burning with Gas"
Published July 12th, 2010
Doctors want to light a fire under people so they become more careful about lighting fires--especially those ignited with gasoline. A shocking number of people get burned this way every year in North Central Florida.
In the Medical Spotlight, David Mozingo, M.D., a burn trauma surgeon at the University of Florida, tells TV 20's David Snyder why gasoline is much more dangerous than other accelerants, and why the burns are so much worse.
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