Man Burned After Cutting Electric Wires
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A 39-year-old Anaheim man was in critical condition Friday with severe burns across his body after contacting electrified wires, police said.
Thomas Yuch suffered second- and third-degree burns over 80% of his body after his clothes burst into flames at the vacant Anaheim Foundry at 125 E. Commercial St., Anaheim Police Sgt. Chuck Craig said.
Yuch apparently cut into a 12,000-volt wire just before a witness saw him “running out of the building with his clothes burning,” Craig said.
Police found the injured Yuch and he was rushed to the Grossman Burn Center at Martin Luther Hospital in Anaheim.
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