PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- A sauna fire early Wednesday morning at a Michigan Tech fraternity house sends one man to the hospital.
At 3:30 a.m., deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff's Department investigated a sauna fire at the Theta Tau Fraternity House in Portage Township. Four people were taking a sauna when an explosion occurred inside the sauna.
"Apparently the guys were saunaing and they had a bottle of eucalyptus oil and they were adding it to what they thought was a bottle of water and apparently it was a flammable liquid. They poured it on the stove and it flared up and burnt the fellow that was pouring it on the rocks," said Sheriff Brian McLean.
A 26-year-old Hancock man was transported by a friend to Portage Health Hopsital for treatment of burns. The man was later sent to a hospital in Duluth, Minnesota for further treatment.
Deputies were assisted at the scene by the Hurontown Fire Department.
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