Posted on 03/14/2022 10:38:43 PM PDT by verum ago
A family from Nyssa, Oregon is sharing their story about how a deep fryer sent their 22-month-old baby to the burn unit. Engaged couple, Dakota Fraizer and Alyssa Miracle, are Amara Fraizer's parents. On March 3rd, they say while cooking dinner, Amara reached for the deep fryer which had boiling vegetable oil in it.
"When it hit her head, she closed her eyes and turned her head, she probably saved her own eyes,” said Fraizer. The oil spilled all over her body. The couple said they immediately dialed 9-1-1. Not long after, Amara was life-flighted to Saint Alphonsus in Boise where she was assessed and bandaged, then sent to the burn unit at the University of Utah hospital in Salt Lake City. 35 percent of her body had been burned. "It happened so fast, like within less than five seconds, we had taken our eyes off her for maybe a split second to get something out of the cupboard and it happened like that,” Fraizer said.
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But a couple things are bugging me:
The first is the obvious one: the fryer didn't attack the little girl. I'll state it bluntly: one or both parents were negligent in leaving a freakin' deep fryer within reach of a kid not even 2 years old. (Seriously, how tall is a 22 month old? How hard is to keep a deep fryer out of reach? Or just, y'know, not allow her in the kitchen while it's in use, or not use it in the first place if she's going to be near it?). How is this fundamentally different from leaving a pill bottle or a loaded gun within reach of a 2 year old?
Second, what has become of journalism? I know this isn't exactly a new lament, but gawd, what is the point of this article? To drum up sympathy and help the GoFundMe? Not a bad goal, but not journalism either. And the first sentence, phrased such that blame falls on an inanimate object...
Please forgive my grumpiness tonight. Maybe I just need to vent a bit.
But more than the above, I'm struggling with my own emotions tonight: I want for this little girl to recover with every fiber of my being, while simultaneously hoping one or both of her parents are wracked with the worst kind of guilt. Not very Christian of me. I can't reconcile the two. Maybe it's related to not having had much sleep in a few weeks.
I dunno. Thoughts?
We should ban deep fryers, pintos, teslas, wood stoves, pressure cookers, athletic equipment, and all bats even the not athletic ones.
Maybe we can ban dihydrogen monoxide, or if not just tax the f$$# out of it.
Good observations, rotten parents.
Thoughts- horrible that this happened. Sickening that it was preventable.
But the comment in the video that encourages people to switch from a deep fryer to an air fryer? They get tremendously hot, too, and could cause damage to a toddler. The only difference is that the air fryer doesn’t spill heated liquid.
Neither should be in the reach of a small child.
I agree that something is amiss here. If the
fryer were the type I use, a toddler would
have some difficulty in moving it off the
countertop, as there’s nothing a small hand
could get a grip on. Second, it would
basically need to be lifted. Third, the
outside surface would be hot enough that a
young one would recoil their grasp and let
go.(kind of like touching an oven door).
Just my opinion, as there’s been 7 grandkids
in the kitchen, while I’m cooking (cookie
time). Gotta watch them like a hawk.
I went to a lot of calls that resulted in serious injuries many to children that were caused by maddening stupidity and recklessness. Then I think back on all the idiotic things that I have done that resulted in injuries to myself or very narrowly avoiding death. Some of them are almost funny, but I would not even want to go into most of them here. I certainly am not willing to point any fingers especially based on a poorly written 3rd party account. I just pray for the recovery of the little one.
this story is odd....
is Dakota a girl's name or a boys?
Good heavens, I look after my CATS better than these 2 idiots look after their baby. I keep my cats out of the kitchen altogether by the use of a high cat gate so that they will not be exposed to walking on a hot stovetop, getting sprayed by hot grease, eating things toxic to cats, or knocking down breakable stuff. This story sounds really fishy. In any event, I hope the baby recovers quickly, poor thing.
When I was a toddler we lived in a small house that was built on the side of a hill above a busy 4 lane street that was one of the main arterials in our town. In the summer my parents left the door open to keep it cool. My mom was telling my wife how I kept riding my tricycle down the set of concrete stairs. My wife said did you ever get a baby gate or something? My mom said no, we thought that he would learn.
And of course I did. I finally figured out how to get up dust myself off without making any noise and ride the rest of the way down the hill, across the busy street and then down it. I made it a couple of blocks before someone caught me. A policeman saw my mom frantically trying to find me. He gave my mom a ration of crap but this was long before CPS and the like. Besides my mom was extremely pretty and could talk her way out of anything if a man was involved.
Dakota is usually a girl’s name.
People didn't take as many precautions with their kids when I was growing up. I have got many stories of we kids doing all sorts of crazy things.
Agree! How was this fryer accessible to a 2-year-old!
Obviously a very serious and tragic thing for the child. Although the headline reminded me of the Honeymooner’s episode where they wanted to adopt a baby and the agency was sending somebody over to interview them and inspect the house.
Ralph puts a huge pot of water on the stove to bring to a boil in order to impress the inspector. Alice comes in and asks what in the world is he doing. “What!? Something happens to the kid, and the first thing they always say in the movies is ‘get me some boiling water’ - I’m going to be prepared! Yep - we always have a pot of boiling water ready just in case!”
(I had an English teacher who obsessed over this phenomenon, and I guess some of it stuck in my own head; he must’ve had a list 200 names long)
Works the other way, too. Until the advent of little Miss Curley Top, Shirley was a male name.
There’s others, but it’s late.
You and me, too, brother!
Regards,
When I was a kid I wound up in the hospital for a while. There was a little kid that had been burned after dumping one of those big party size electric percolators (not the little 30ish cup ones, the big ones) on herself by climbing the cord.
Its not as though its a new problem. Parents do need to watch the kids when any potentially dangerous equipment has to be out.
There was also a little girl, maybe 2(?), that had chewed through an electrical cord (I dont remember on what) and burned her entire upper lip off almost right up to her nose. Would changing to an air fryer have stopped that too?
Definitely a need for better parenting. I dont think inanimate object control laws will do any good and blaming the object like these parents (or is it really the reporter) do is childish.
I did something similar when 2 years old - father was boiling eggs on Sunday morning. Nom was at church, reached up and grabbed handle of pot and poured boiling water on my chest and arms
Still have scars over 60 years later
The only stand alone fryer I have owned (20 years ago?) had a magnetic attachment so that the power cord just pulls off with the slightest pressure. Are fixed cord fryers even a normal thing now?
As far as I know, they all have a similar
power cord attachment of a quick release
magnetic type.
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