Faron Pierce is Zachary's father and is in Dallas. It is going to be a very hard recovery and we need to pray for him and for Zachary. I copied the following from the Internet. It was in the Duncan newspaper. ~diane~
June 25, 2010
Two injured in explosion
area men air-evacuated to burn unit, sheriff indicates ‘serious condition’
Derrick Miller and David Laughlin
The Duncan Banner
BRAY — Faron Pierce of Duncan, and Ricky Faust, of Foster, were severely injured Thursday in Bray, when oil field equipment they were working on exploded. The explosion happened just after 2 p.m.
Stephens County Sheriff Wayne McKinney said both men were transported by helicopter to the burn center in Oklahoma City. He said the burns were extensive, covering the entire upper torso, face, hands and groin areas.
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, McKinney said both men were in “extremely serious condition.”
“Both were extremely burned,” McKinney said.
McKinney said the cause of the explosion, which took place at Eagle Iron and Metal, on State Highway 29, east of Marlow, was unknown.
When the call came in, there was an immediate response from numerous law enforcement, firefighters and other public safety personnel, as the seriousness of the explosion was yet to be determined.
Members of the Stephens County Sheriff’s Department, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other emergency departments tended to the scene for about two hours.
SH 29 was closed for about an hour, as traffic was diverted, so emergency personnel could work the scene and the helicopters were brought in for the immediate transfer of Faust and Pierce.
McKinney said OHP was on the scene about three minutes following the explosion. It took members of the sheriff’s department about seven minutes to get to the scene. “We have more people working the road now,” McKinney said.
