A nine-year-old boy was left in unbearable pain after burning 70 percent of his body in a viral ‘fire challenge.’
The unidentified child ‘is lucky to be alive’ after participating in the social media challenge, said New Orleans Fire Department Chief Roman Nelson in a video spreading awareness about the dangerous stunt.
The chief, alongside New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, described the challenge as children dousing themselves in flammable substances, then lighting themselves on fire to see how fast they can put out the flames.
‘It’s very dangerous. It is not fun, and it is not funny,’ Kirkpatrick said in the
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