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Child seriously burned by cooking grease
By TAMARA LUSH © St. Petersburg Times, published April 5, 2001 HUDSON -- Tina Parks ran out of her mobile home Wednesday afternoon with her 15-month-old son in her arms. He was bright red and squirming in pain. "Help! Help! He just got burnt by a grease fire!" Parks wailed. Neighbor Sue Andreu heard Parks' frantic cries and ran over. "(The baby's) arm was kind of bubbling," Andreu said. "I grabbed the baby out of her arms because she was so upset. "I just rocked him till the ambulance came." The ambulance took Robert Dale Parks to a field at Hudson High School, where his mother, grandmother and two friends waited for a medical helicopter. Grandmother Glenda Lane peeked through the back ambulance window to see the blond, curly-haired boy crying and holding out his arms. "He wanted to come to momma," she said. The baby, called Dale, was flown at about 6 p.m. to Tampa General Hospital's burn unit, where he was in serious condition Wednesday night. He suffered burns on his arm, chest and back; paramedics gave him medication before the flight to ease the pain. His face was not burned, neighbors said. Through heavy sobs, Tina Parks said she was cooking dinner when a pan of grease caught fire. "I accidentally spilled grease on him," she said. It was the second time in a year that a baby on Bluegill Lane suffered serious burns. On April 26, 2000, a 2-year-old boy was scalded when he pulled a pot of boiling water off a stove. His parents were boiling water to make Easter eggs. The boy was later treated at the Shriner's Hospital in Ohio. - Times researcher Kitty Bennett contributed to this story. -- Tamara Lush can be reached in west Pasco at 869-6245 or (800) 333-7505, ext. 6245. Her e-mail address is lush@sptimes.com.
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