Overview

• Lake Havasu City police detectives and fire investigators have opened a joint inquiry into how the chamber caught fire.
• Dr. Walter Foxcroft, 43, the facility’s owner and lead physical therapist, was pronounced dead inside the oxygen-rich chamber on July 9.
• Crews responding to a 10:50 p.m. 911 call found smoke throughout the Mesquite Avenue clinic and an intact chamber evidencing a flash fire.
• No other patients or staff were harmed, and responders ventilated the building before handing the scene over to detectives.
• Industry experts warn that hyperbaric chambers pose elevated fire hazards due to high-oxygen environments, a concern underscored by a similar fatal U.S. incident earlier this year.