OPA-LOCKA, FLA. (WSVN) - A worker at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport was severely burned, Friday, by a flash fire.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, hydraulic fluid sparked up from beneath the plane the man was working on and burned him.

The victim was treated at the scene and airlifted to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Burn Center.

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