BREAKING NEWS:10 students injured in North High cooking equipment explosion
Ten students at North High School in Torrance were rushed to the hospital today with injuries sustained when portable cooking equipment exploded in a classroom.
Four of those teens were seriously hurt in the blast, which was reported at 12:46 p.m., officials said.
Traffic was blocked at the intersection of 182nd Street and Prairie Avenue while 35 emergency personnel - including five ambulances - responded.
The injured students were taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital, County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Torrance Memorial Medical Center.
It was not immediately known what the cooking equipment was being used for or whether school would be closed for the rest of the day.