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Last Crew Of Wildland Firefighters Return To Ala.
By Debbie Williams Reporter
Published: Thu, November 15, 2007 - 5:34 pm
Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Debbie Williams
The incident happened around five o'clock yesterday afternoon near his home at the intersection of Highway 59 and 49 in Loxley.
Family members are hopeful he will make a full recovery.
"He started screaming and they ran out the back door," says Tracee Acy. Those screams were coming from her cousin, Brent Wilson, a freshman
at Robertsdale High School and now a patient at USA Medical Center recovering from burns to over fifty percent of his body.
"I thought he'd just caught the yard on fire." His Mother, Linda Wilson says her sons injuries are extensive. "His face and his hat saved his hair. The scalp, his arms are pretty bad. His fingers are hurting him worse than anything."
Brent was doing what his family had done for years, burn garbage in the backyard. Only this time, he threw gasoline on the flames and it literally blew up in his face. "He's been warned several times not to use gas and he went and done it anyway and now he knows it wasn't a good decision," says his Mother.
A lesson learned the hard way, a lesson his parents are glad didn't cost their son his life.
Wilson's Mother says her son will be in the hospital for a little while longer but may avoid surgery all together.
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My neighbor does the same thing everytime he burns his trash. I have told him it is only a matter of time before he gets burned. Some people just gotta find out the hard way.
jeff