Experiment goes bad at Cal State Fullerton, leaving student with minor burns

FULLERTON – A student suffered minor burns during an experimentthat went awry on the Cal State Fullerton campus Friday, forcing the evacuationof two classrooms.The student – taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange forevaluation – was doing an experiment at about 12:35 p.m. with potassium, ironoxide and sugar when he was burned in a flash fire, Fullerton Fire DivisionChief Kathy Schaefer said.Smoke from the fire blew back into the classrooms, which brought theevacuation