The fire that left an 11-year-old cancer survivor with third-degree burns after she burst into flames in an Oregon Hospital was caused by a combustible mix of olive oil, static electricity and hand sanitiser.
Ireland Lane, a cancer survivor, was being evaluated at Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland on February 2 after she hit her head and lost consciousness at school, ABC reported.
Her father, Stephen Lane, was sleeping in her hospital room when the front of her t-shirt suddenly caught fire.
Mr Lane jumped to extinguish the flames, but his daughter had already suffered third-degree burns to most of her torso and head.
Doctors at the hospital were baffled.