http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/14246048p-15064008c.html
Опытный 62-летний ракетчик-любитель умер от ожогов, полученных при аварии в своём гараже. Он разрабатывал ЖРД на перекиси/керосине. Предположительно авария произошла при перегонке перекиси.
Badly burned rocket hobbyist dies
By Elizabeth Hume — Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, April 21, 2006
Story appeared in Metro section, Page B2
SACRAMENTO - A man severely burned while building small rockets in his Antelope garage earlier this month died Wednesday night in UC Davis Medical Center, authorities said.
Robert Wayne Compton, 62, was in his garage on Grey Livery Way when the fire started about 7:30 p.m. April 9. The fire was quickly put out, but Compton was severely burned, Sacramento Metro Fire District officials said.
Compton was transported to the Medical Center with burns over more than 30 percent of his body.
An investigation indicated Compton was distilling hydrogen peroxide just before the blaze, district spokesman Engineer Christian Pebbles said.