Posted on 01/05/2018 4:51:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
A teenager in Florida is in a medically induced coma following a horrifying accident on New Year’s Eve.
Authorities tell WFOR that 14-year-old Layne Chesney suffered third-degree burns across most of her body while roasting marshmallows at a friend’s house.
“My daughter has sustained burns over 95 percent of her body,” Leigh Chesney, Layne’s mother, told WFOR. “She has suffered a lot of disfiguring injuries.
Family members say Layne was roasting marshmallows at a friend’s house to make s’mores.
“When the flames went out, one of the children or her, I do not know the complete story, accidentally or purposefully, put more gas to the fire,” Chesney said. “An explosion occurred and she was enveloped in flames.”
She was rushed to an area hospital, but family members say they are simply hoping that she will survive.
“The only part of her body that was not burned was the bottom of her feet,” she said.
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You can also buy a charcoal chimney - your ventilated coffee can, with a handle - at Walmart or a hardware store.
I had a case once where a group of teens were camping at a privately owned campground. They had a campfire going (within the designated ring), but it was dying out. They had run out of lighter fluid, so one of the teens suggested that they pour on some Coleman white gas, which they had used earlier in the camp stoves. Two of the teens suffered terrible burns in the fireball.
Nah - don't think so. Leave the thread.
Oh good God in heaven, I could barely read this! I pray for this girl, this is absolutely horrendous, I know what this entails as I use to work in the burn ward in the 1980s. There is nothing on this earth more traumatic.
Why does her mom not know exactly what happened and who did what? And why were they using gasoline for the fire?
My kid, I would be smacking heads to get the truth as to exactly what went down. And whose bright idea it was to use gasoline.
Well it depends on what degrees of burns she has, if it mostly third degree, or if its a little third degree, and then second or first degree as well.
Renova Care is awaiting FDA approval for a new burn treatment, The Cell Mist System, which has proved successful in clinical trials.
https://renovacareinc.com/technology/
“The Skin Gun” | National Geographic video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI
If they could get her into a hyperbaric chamber full of oxygen and red light therapy leds/lasers and get fluids in her she could have a chance.
Many child tragedies are preventable. Amazing society cannot teach children comprehensive safety, instead of just yelling at them.
Save your used frying oil in a sqeeze n squirt type bottle. Squirt some oil on the paper when youre putting the layer of crumple wads in. The paper burns longer and gives a more even and faster start to the coals.
That is a great tip.
Prayers to the girl...and her family, and her friends.
Almost every kid I ever knew, including myself, had to learn lessons about fire, often the hard way.
It is a fascination most people have with flame, and most of us were lucky to rarely be more seriously injured by fire than a painful burn or some property damage of some kind.
Playing with fire is one of the things I fully support parental corporal punishment when dealing with children.
Prayers for this poor child.
As I was saying in another post...kids (and adults) can do incredibly stupid things when it comes to fire.
Growing up, I did dumb things myself, my brother nearly burned our house down, I have set fields and nearly trees on fire, and have burned myself in the process.
I nearly suffered what could have been serious burns, saving myself only because I was next to a swimming pool and immediately threw myself in when I set my neck and shoulder on fire with a tiki torch by accident. It wasn’t as “dumb” as it was careless...as an adult, I tried to push a lit tiki torch into the ground, and when I put force on it, the pole bent dropping the torch onto my neck and back where the fluid spilled onto me and ignited. I escaped that with burnt hair and mostly 1st degree burns.
As a kid, I set a field on fire because I was using a slingshot to fire smoke bombs into a field across the street from my house, and had no foresight to see that the flame and sparks the thing belched would set the dry grass on fire.
When I was in first grade, I was hospitalized with Double Pneumonia for about a week.
One night, I heard horrific, agonizing screams. My mother, who was spending the night with me, went to see what was going on.
We lived in a small town and my dad was the police chief, so the nurses told my mom what was happening. One of my classmates had been playing with matches and burned herself very badly.
She was hospitalized at St. Jude’s for the remainder of the school year and was forced to repeat the first grade.
It was a miracle she survived. She has severe scars from her neck down and, to this day, still requires occasional surgeries. The accident occurred in 1978. I will never forget her screams of agony.
I can’t even imagine the absolute hell this poor girl is enduring. Prayers for her and her family.
Thank you Virgil. What do they say...
what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
In my case that is true.
i didnt post to you, you replying to the right person?
No you didn’t post to me, you were wondering whose bright idea it was to use gasoline, and I was just observing (in a verbose way) that stupidity with fire is pretty commonplace.
That was all.
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