Pendragons Princess

This one is a real winner:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_12864427?source=rss

A 7-year-old Littleton boy was burned so badly in a fire Friday evening that he has been flown to the Shriner’s Hospital in California for treatment.

The boy, whose identity has not been released, received 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 90 percent of his body, according to West Metro Fire Rescue spokesman Micki Trost. The boy was transported by ambulance to Swedish Hospital, then helicoptered to Children’s Hospital in Aurora, which then made the decision to send him to California.

Investigators say they believe the 7-year-old started a fire in his family’s condominium on West Phillips Drive when he was playing with a lighter in a bedroom closet around 5 p.m. Friday.

A smoke alarm alerted his sister and mother, who ran upstairs to pull him out of the fire. The mother received burns to her hands and feet and was taken to Swedish.

Firefighters commended the 8-year-old sister, who called 911 and gave the dispatcher a detailed and accurate description of what was going on. Firefighters said they were able to respond appropriately when they got there based on her information.

The husband and father, who is in the U.S. Army, was located in Missouri and was being flown by the Red Cross to California.

The two-story structure received significant damage but the fire was contained to that unit and did not damage adjacent units. The burned unit is uninhabitable, Trost said.

Spokeswoman Trost said all parents should know that almost every fire department in the state has a free training program for parents whose children are showing an interest or fascination with fire.
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I wonder where the kid got the lighter from? Didn’t the parents know what the kid was doing at that hour, or were they too busy making supper? There are a lot of unanswered questions to this story. Maybe from now on the parents will keep all forms of fire out of the hands of their children. This is a very sad story and I hope the seven year old survives, but it won’t be without multiple surgeries to his skin. Let this be a lesson to parents everywhere so they don’t make a daily fail in raising their children.