Police to BYU students: Don't make rocket fuel in your dorm

Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information

BYU police are reminding college students to not make rocket gas at scholar housing.

The weird warning was issued after emergency crews responded to a hearth alarm at Heritage Halls at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

"Upon arrival they discovered the hearth sprinklers had been activated and have been flooding the principle ground," based on an announcement from BYU police.

As emergency crews additional investigated the state of affairs, they discovered that a resident had been making "do-it-yourself rocket gas on the range when the unstable combination instantly exploded right into a fireball," police stated.

BYU Police Lt. Jeff Lengthy stated the 22-year-old man, a scholar on the college, was making roughly 5 kilos of rocket gas with components that have been legally bought.

"What makes it unlawful is whenever you put all of it collectively," he stated.

What the person meant to do with the rocket gas was a part of the on-going investigation, Lengthy stated. As of Monday the person had not been arrested or charged.

Flames engulfed the partitions and ceiling across the range after the explosion and "the extreme warmth tripped the hearth sprinkler system," based on the assertion.

The fireplace was principally out when crews arrived. Nobody was injured. Nevertheless, 22 college students will likely be displaced for 2 weeks attributable to flooding points, Lengthy stated.

"Please preserve your experiments within the lab and supervised by educated professionals," police reminded college students.