Electrical fire at FSU’s mag lab injures one, building evacuated

An employee of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University suffered serious burns after an electrical fire this morning. The MagLab will remain closed today. The employee, who has worked as an engineering technician at the MagLab for 10 years, suffered second- and third-degree burns and was transported by LifeNet helicopter to Shands Hospital Burn Center in Gainesville, Fla., following initial on-scene treatment by Leon County Emergency Medical Services and the Tallahassee Fire Department. There were no other injuries.