Colorado Student Injured After Setting Himself On Fire, Authorities Say

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A 16-year-old boy was critically injured Monday after setting himself on fire in the cafeteria at a suburban Denver high school in an apparent suicide attempt, authorities said.

Westminster Police Department spokeswoman Cheri Spottke said the boy didn’t make any threats before starting the fire at about 7:15 a.m. at Standley Lake High School.

“There is no indication there were any threats to any schools,” she said.

Spottke said a custodian was able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze before it could spread. Several other students were in the cafeteria at the time, but none were injured.

She didn’t know how the student set the fire, which caused extensive smoke in the building.