A physical therapist was burned alive inside a hyperbaric chamber at his Arizona practice when a flash fire ignited in the oxygen therapy machine Wednesday, July 9, turning it into a literal de@thtrap.

 

Dr. Walter Foxcroft, 43, was found de@d inside the chamber by firefighters who rushed to his office, Havasu Health and Hyperbarics, after receiving a report of a fire there around 11 p.m., the Lake Havasu City Fire Department said.

 

When the first responders arrived, smoke was already billowing through the building.

 

 

 

They scanned the building and came across the grisly scene in which the hyperbaric chamber was turned into a fiery coffin with Foxcroft’s scorched body trapped inside, according to officials.

 

His c0rpse was recovered from the chamber and he was pronounced de@d at the scene. No other injuries were reported, according to the fire department.

 

 

Hyperbaric chambers, sealed enclosures where air pressure and oxygen levels inside can be controlled, are used for patients’ physical and mental health — aiding with anything from cognition and dementia to physical aging, according to the Havasu Health and Hyperbarics website.

 

It is unclear why the doctor was inside the chamber late at night.

 

Foxcroft, a 2005 University of Arizona graduate, was remembered by his classmates following his horrific de@th.