A federal agency is calling on museum and school administrators to change the way they do science demonstrations after a fire that injured 13 people, most of them children, earlier this month in a Reno museum. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board issued a statement Monday urging educators to end or limit their use of methanol or other flammable chemicals in demonstrations involving flames. The agency says there are safer ways to create the color-changing phenomenon the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum was trying to show at the time of the Sept. 3 accident.
Investigators say a flash fire erupted after a museum employee added methanol to a cotton ball that was likely still smoldering.
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