Four teens taken to hospital with burns after ‘aerosol can’ fire

Critical care paramedics were called to an address south of Brisbane overnight to treat four teenagers who suffered burns to their face and body from an ‘aerosol can’ fire.

Critical care paramedics were called to a Kingston address at about 10.40pm Monday after four teenagers suffered from burns from a reproted ‘aerosol can’ fire. Picture: QLD ambulance, file photo

FOUR teenagers have suffered burns to their face, legs and arms after a fire reportedly caused by an aerosol can overnight.

Critical care paramedics were called to a Kingston home at about 10.40pm Monday to treat the four patients, two females and two males.

One patient was rushed to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital under lights and sirens.

Two boys and one girl were taken to Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Senior operations supervisor Adrian Tong said, “We got information that four teenagers sustained superficial face, arm and leg burns after an aerosol can reportedly ignited at a private address.”

He said one female patient suffered additional partial thickness burns.

“The main message for treating these burns is to… call the ambulance. And in this instance we worry about the burns we can’t see on the inside as well as the burns we can see on the outside,” he said.

Originally published as Four teens taken to hospital with burns after ‘aerosol can’ fire