dutch shorttrack star Sjinkie Knegt in hospital with severe burn injury

[Nicky91]

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sports male personality of the year 2015 and shorttrack star Sjinkie Knegt was literally ''on fire'' after a accident when he tried to put his wood burner on, his very flammable sports gear caught fire

his wife quickly grabbed a bucket of water to extinguish the flames

due to this accident, his shorttrack season is over, second accident for Sjinkie also, after earlier an accident with a forklift truck where he injured his foot at


he got severe burn marks all over his body, so recovery is going to be tough


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KNSB (our shorttrack/speed skating federation) wishing Sjinkie a good recovery from this tragedy

https://www.ad.nl/schaatsen/sjinkie-knegt-met-ernstige-brandwonden-in-ziekenhuis~a1b1acd1/

only found this article, sadly nothing on dutchnews (which is in english) so i translate most of it myself now

[thesheriff443]

Wood does not burst into flames, bet he was using something else to get it going.

[Nicky91]

Wood does not burst into flames, bet he was using something else to get it going.

i guess so, probably an accelerant which you do use for these wood burners

some prefer wood burners over heaters cause heaters can be dangerous in terms of carbon monoxide poisoning risks (but that's only if you never let it get cleaned)