‘I Was Dead 5 Months Ago’: Burn Victim Revisits Hospital Staff After Release

Burn victim Micheal Zimmer (R) joins his brother Ron in thanking his medical team at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Calif., on April 13, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

ORANGE, Calif.—Inside the Regional Burn Center on the 5th floor at UC–Irvine Medical Center, two lines of doctors, nurses, and hospital staff formed a walkway to celebrate the return of 61-year-old Michael Zimmer—a former patient who they had nursed back to health after a propane tank exploded on him last December.

“I was dead five months ago,” Zimmer told hospital staff.