Lee's Summit Explosion Burns Welder

Local worker suffers serious injury as several fire departments respond and rescue . . . Here are the basics:

At around 4:20 p.m. Lee’s Summit firefighters responded to a fire coming from a large metal barn that stored equipment, horses and other livestock on East 99th Street near South Noland Road.

“Several callers reported an explosion and black smoke coming from a building and a man on fire,” the Lee’s Summit Fire Department said.

The man who caught on fire was treated on the scene before being taken to a local trauma center for more medical attention.

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