On hot summer days where it’s too hot to do anything with the kids, many parents love to turn on the sprinkler in the backyard to let them cool off and burn off some of their energy.
One Arizona mom, Dominique Woodger, loved filling up the kiddy pool and putting the sprinkler on for her kids on hot days, however, she’s now warning other parents of the hidden dangers that caused her baby boy to end up in the hospital with second-degree burns covering 30 percent of his body.
When Woodger saw the temperature outside, she knew it was a perfect day to set up the sprinkler in the backyard for her 9-month-old son, but when she turned the faucet on, scalding hot water that had been sitting in the hose came shooting out on her baby.
“I thought he was crying because he was mad, because he hates when he gets sprayed in the face. I didn’t think that it was burning him,” Woodger said. “It’s heartbreaking. It is. It sucks. All of it was peeling. He had blisters all over the right side.”
According to Fire Capt. Larry Subervi, on hot summer days when temperatures reach up to 115 degrees the water left sitting inside the hose can get as hot as 150 degrees. “So at those temperatures, something as short as a 10 or 30-second exposure can result in a second-degree burn,” Subervi said.
While the 9-month-old is going to be fine, Woodger wants to warn other parents about how dangerous the seemingly harmless activity can be on hot days. “Just be careful. Just touch it (the water) before you spray– before you let your kids near it.”
Watch the entire video below to hear the rest of this mom’s warning.
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