Oh yes... These kinds of reports are very real. There are all manner of stories where fires break out in the high oxygen atmposhere of the surgical room when using a laser scapel. The scapel is hot enough to ignite anything. Most incidents are when the surgery is in someones throat. They already have a near pure oxygen tube set up in there when the surgeon clips the line and turns it into a pressurized blowtorch going right into the poor bastards lungs. Death is pretty much a certainty.