Crime & Safety

Phone Catches Fire in Yale Emergency Department

The man happened to be in the emergency department when his phone caught fire.

NEW HAVEN, CT — A man happened to be in the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency department when his phone caught fire in his pocket Tuesday morning. He sustained minor burns to his thigh and was treated by medical personnel, according to NBC Connecticut.

A few patients were briefly relocated from a small area and operations quickly went back to normal.

Read the full NBC story here.

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