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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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I dont believe the adults.
My hubby has burn scars all over his chest and back and they took skin from the back of his legs to graft. He reached up on the stove and flipped a cast iron pan with fried chicken and cooking oil when he was 6. That was 1954. So yes, it happens.
In the future, all fryers will have to be conical shaped so they can’t be tipped over.
They will be limited capacity and only fry one item at at time, for safety.
They will fry at 100 degrees.
The instruction manual will be larger and the first 100 pages will be safety instructions in large letters.
They will be all electric so no open flames.
The will use air instead of oil.
They will be expensive and illegal so folks will fry with oil on the stove.
I’m not sure about all the services, but I know the Coast Guard does not use Deep Fat fryers any longer they removed them from their ships and other shoreside facilities, maybe 10 years ago.
I also remember when I was a military cook and Bic lighters first came out there were cooks would put their lighters in their shirt pocket and after one or two of those Bic’s slipped out of their shirt pockets into the deep fat fryer KABOOM and they were pretty much banned from cooks and if they wanted to light there smokes they switched back to using regular old NAPHTHA fluid lighters.
You forgot boiling pots of pasta water.
I also remember when I was a military cook and Bic lighters first came out....
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Along those same lines, I was at a barbecue one time when a Bic starter was simply left on the small table that is part of the barbecue. After about 15 minutes of heating, it got hot enough that it exploded....
As for bad burns, one of my neighbors was doing so canning and spilled a bunch of boiling water on himself. He didn’t go to the hospital for any treatment and died a few days later from sepsis.
The one that amuses me is Robin. In the UK and Canada it’s a boy’s name, but in the US a girl’s name. Don’t know about other parts of the Anglo sphere.
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The frier was probably on the island or a penninsula with the cord plugged into the outlet on the side of the cabinet.
The child prolly grabbed the cord and pulled it down onto herself.
We, as kids, were taught 70 years ago not to grab skillet handles on the stove.
Have we forgot to teach the kids these rules and have we forgotten to move such things out of the way of kids?
is Dakota a girl’s name or a boys?
Dak Prescott is the Dallas Cowboy QB and it is short for Dakota
They seem to have a GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sweet-amaras-burn-unit-recovery/donations
Australia, too:
I thought that’s why they made the cords on these types of appliances so short; so that they would not dangle off of counter-tops. That being said, the parents should have more awareness of the dangers in the kitchen and what their children are doing when things are being cooked, boiled,etc. However, I know how quick children that age can be.
When I was about twelve, some friends of my parents had twin boys at about two years of age. One of the boys did this exact same thing and had second and third degree burns on his chest, stomach, and legs. He survived, but had to have several surgeries. After that, he was always the smaller of the twins. That instance stuck in my mind and I’ve always been super careful with children in the kitchen.
“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,”
Variations on that sentence have been uttered probably a million times. Toddlers are quick, and most of the time, quiet about it when they are interested in something. You gotta watch ‘em like a hawk.
God help the family.
Second, what has become of journalism?
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Local TV news journalism sucks.
This is a personal pet peeve of mine and has been for years. TV journalism all over the country is pathetic. Anytime you see a badly written article, you can bet the farm it was produced by a local TV station.
And it makes no difference if the TV station is in a top ten market or maybe Wherever, MN; it will be bad.
From a practical standpoint, you can get about the same quality of reporting from low cost fresh out of college writers as experienced high priced ones.
Well, it is in our oceans, lakes, streams, etc. Must be bad.
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Title should be “Eastern Oregon couple says their carelessness with a deep fryer sent their baby to the burn unit”
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