PROVO, Utah — Some students at Brigham Young University were forced out of their dorms because of a fire that was started by a resident making rocket fuel.
The 22-year-old man told police he was trying to recreate something he saw online by trying to make rocket fuel in his kitchen, CNN reported.
In a Facebook post, the BYU police department said the resident was mixing the ingredients on the stove when “the volatile mixture suddenly exploded into a fireball.” Nobody was hurt. Pictures shared on the Facebook post show that the walls and ceiling near the stove were burned.
A spokesperson for BYU police, Jeff Long, told KUTV that this was one of the more unusual fires the department had responded to on campus. “A burned pop tart is probably one of our number one calls as far as fire response in that building,” Long told the station.
Police asked that students “please keep your experiments in the lab and supervised by trained professionals,” KSTU reported.
Police have not yet been able to determine how much it will cost to fix the damage, CNN reported.
No charges have been filed.
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