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Six children injured in McKinney fire (updated 4 p.m.)
Bill Conrad / Staff Photo: Six children were injured Monday afternoon when a gasoline can sitting next to an open fire exploded at a residence in east McKinney. Four of the children were taken to Parkland Hospital via air ambulance with critical injuries. Police officers and fire investigators were still at the scene several hours after the explosion.
By Conner Hammett, chammett@starlocalnews.com
Six children were injured, four critically, when a gasoline can exploded Monday in east McKinney.
The children, who range in age from 4 to 11, were sprinkling gas over an open flame in a fire pit at a residence in the 800 block of Center Street. The can was placed next to the fire, igniting vapors and causing a flash fire that injured all six children, said Stacie Durham, McKinney Fire Department spokeswoman.
The four critically injured children were flown by air ambulance to Parkland Hospital. One child was also taken to Parkland by ground ambulance, and one was taken by ambulance to Medical Center of McKinney. The incident was reported at 1:15 p.m.
Kennedy Caine, 11, said she was at her cousin's house across the street when she heard a boom come from the house across the street.
Caine said she was playing with some of the children who were later injured shortly before the accident and saw them being taken out of the house by EMS with severe burns to the legs, back, arms and elbows.
"The kids I didn't know, they were really burned; really bad," she said.
The oldest child was able to communicate what happened to first responders, Durham said. The investigation is ongoing.
Staff writers Bill Conrad and Monique Oaks contributed to this story.
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Pineapple wrote on Dec 26, 2012 8:14 AM:
" OMG - why were those children in the backyard, unsupervised, playing around an open fire pit -- with a gas can? When will parents learn? I am sure they feel horrible...but how do the children feel? It all could have been avoided if the adults had acted like adults and been watching the children! "
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